Zimbabwe Not Suspended by KP

JCK Staff -- JCK Online, 11/5/2009 1:23:37 PM

Kimberley Process members decided against suspending Zimbabwe for its alleged production of conflict diamonds at a meeting on Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal report.

According to the report, KP members decided to send a Kimberley monitor to Zimbabwe to supervise the country's diamond production, according to members who attended the meeting, as well as impose a 12-month timeline for reforms. The agreement bans Zimbabwe from exporting stones from Marange, the area where alleged abuses have taken place, until the Kimberley monitor arrives to inspect them.

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• Not immediately suspending Zimbabwe and showing solidarity against Zimbabwe's human rights disaster just further erodes the KP's muscle to the world. KP is a huge disappointment to us in the jewelery trade. Sending someone to monitor is a joke. Just what person is going to go up to the dangerous Mutare Mountain range and not be under tight escort by Mugabe's thugs? A monitor will see only what Mugabe wants him to see. The KP is such a joke.
  
  Having worked with Zimbabweans for 30 years in their stone art, they are a wonderful people and they need our protection from Mugabe's thugs.
  
  THe KP is a huge joke.
  
  Laura Ponter

  
  Laura Ponter - 2009-9-11 10:26:54 EST
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