A/RES/55/56 with a significant interest in the world diamond industry to participate in further meetings, and to move ahead with the intergovernmental negotiating process to develop detailed proposals for the envisaged international certification scheme for rough diamonds, in close collaboration with the diamond industry and taking into account the views of relevant elements of civil society; 6. Requests the countries participating in the Kimberley Process to submit to the General Assembly, no later than at its fifty-sixth session, a report on progress made; 7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”. 79th plenary meeting 1 December 2000 3