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20. Notes with satisfaction the progress of work performed on footprinting
diamonds from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in order to bolster the capacity of
the West African Kimberley Process authorities to address potential contamination
of their own production by sanctioned Ivorian diamonds and on updating of the
footprint of Marange diamonds from Zimbabwe;
21. Acknowledges with great appreciation the important contribution that
Israel, as Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2010, has made to the efforts to curb the
trade in conflict diamonds, welcomes the selection of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo as Chair, and takes note that the Process has decided to take the decision
on the Vice-Chair for 2011 by written procedure;
22. Requests the Chair of the Kimberley Process to submit to the General
Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the Process;
23. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the
item entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”.
68th plenary meeting
16 December 2010
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