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WDC upbeat on KP Secretariat

President of the World Diamond Council (WDC) Feriel Zerouk

BAKANG TIRO

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The newly elected president of the World Diamond Council (WDC) Feriel Zerouki is confident that the natural diamonds industry will succeed in launching the Kimberly Process (KP) Secretariat in Botswana next year.

Last year Botswana won its bid to host the permanent secretariat of the KP, the grouping that certifies that the natural diamonds of its members are not used to fund wars popularly called blood diamonds.

KP members are currently divided over whether Russian diamonds are funding war; as Vladimir Putin’s country has invaded Ukraine in a war that seems far from ending.

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