"Deal allows limited diamond exports" by Associated Press | July 17, 2010
PARIS — A global body created to curb trade in diamonds that finance conflict has agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export limited numbers of stones from fields where the military has been accused of violent human rights abuses and smuggling, representatives of the diamond industry and advocacy groups said yesterday.
The group isn't about those crimes it rides for cover -- I've dismissed globalist bodies on that score since they are the most ruthless and blood-soaked violators -- it is about control the diamond trade.
Another global agency for global government -- who just happen to be the people buying the diamonds.
The agreement emerged Thursday at meetings in St. Petersburg involving the World Diamond Council, an industry body, and a UN-backed group called the Kimberley Process, set up by countries, diamond industry representatives, and advocacy groups to counter sales of so-called blood diamonds.
You see, it's okay if western corporations exploit such resources, but God help you if you do it for your own people.
Btw, who is buying diamonds because it sure as hell ain't me?
Reports of human rights abuses and violence in the Marange diamond fields of eastern Zimbabwe have provided a critical test of whether the Kimberley Process can realize its aspirations of preventing illicit profits from fueling conflicts and abuse.
Drug war, diamond war, here a war, there a war, everywhere a war war!!!
The deal provides for Zimbabwe to export two batches of rough diamonds before Sept. 6 under the supervision of monitors from the Kimberley Process.
The amount Zimbabwe is likely to earn from the sales was not immediately made known. According to news reports, the Mines Ministry in Harare has estimated the value of its stockpile to be as high as $1.7 billion, but there was no indication that the entire stockpile would be exported under the agreement.
The area is so rich in deposits that it could help catapult the nation into the ranks of the world’s top diamond producers, according to an expert for the Kimberley Process.
The agreement was intended in part to head off Zimbabwean threats to export millions of carats of newly mined diamonds on its own, without the international group’s seal of approval.
See?
Not that Mugabe is a great guy (he ain't; no leader is), but you simply can not practice nationalism or any type of nation-benefiting policy in this attempted age of global government.
Diamond traders had said they were worried that large-scale sales of uncertified Zimbabwean diamonds could destabilize the global trade.
Yeah, they AIN'T REALLY WORRIED about HUMAN RIGHTS or CONFLICTS at all; otherwise, they would STOP ARMING and FUNDING them!
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They all work for the West, huh?--more--"
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