Africa-Press – Angola. An Angolan delegation participates, from the 13th to the 17th of this month, in the Interim Meeting of the Kimberley Process, taking place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
According to a press release, the Angolan delegation will be led by the executive coordinator of the National Commission for the Kimberley Process (CNPK), Estanislau Buio, and will include staff from the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas , executive administrators of Endiama, SODIAM, among other technicians.
The event will bring together representatives from 85 countries participating in the Kimberley Process International Certification System (SCPK), Extractive Industry and civil society.
Lasting five days, the event will serve to discuss proposals for administrative decisions, within the framework of the ongoing Review and Reform of the Kimberley Process, with emphasis on the discussion and approval of the start of the activity of the permanent secretariat, scheduled for next June, in Gaberone, Botswana.
The agenda includes the discussion of the proposal for the Definition of Conflict Diamond, debate on the proposal to implement the co-presidency and co-vice-presidency in the SCPK.
The discussion and approval of the date of the Assessment Mission in the Central African Republic and the proposal for the new Kimberley Process logo is part of the agenda, which also includes the presentation of various rough diamond traceability technologies to be debated.
According to the note, on the sidelines of the meeting, a forum on technology will be held on the 16th, at the same time that ambassadors from G7 member countries, accredited in the United Arab Emirates, will be invited to provide information about the capabilities of traceability equipment. that all SCPK participants can possess to enable certification of the origin of their rough diamonds.
The idea, the document states, is to avoid the obligation on the part of producers that all rough diamonds be sent to Antwerp for the traceability process and, consequently, their certification.
The International Kimberley Process System is the certification body for the origin of rough diamonds, established through Resolution 55/56 of 2000, of the United Nations General Assembly, which aims to prevent the purchase and sale of diamonds from conflict areas.
In 2000, several countries accepted the Kimberley Process, pledging to acquire only certified rough diamonds (with origin confirmed by official certificate) and to refuse imports from conflict areas.
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