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Article: Kimberley Process forum meets for first time since January 1: despite calls for the creation of an independent monitoring system, the plenary session of Kimberley Process decides to place its trust in national monitoring bodies and a peer review mechanism.
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- Israel Diamonds
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Signatories to the Kimberley Process met in Johannesburg, South Africa, in late April, for their first plenary session since the official implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) on January 1. During the meeting, a warning was issued to those nations who have not, or are not in the process of introducing the system designed to curb the flow of conflict diamonds into the legitimate pipeline, saying that, if they do not act appropriately and in a timely fashion, they will find themselves marginalized and isolated.
Specifically, and in recognition of the difficulties experienced by certain signatories in implementing the KPCS, participants ...