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(b) Also welcomes the progress made towards the collection and submission
of statistical reports on the production of and trade in rough diamonds, encourages
all of the Kimberley Process participants to enhance the quality of data, and to this
end applauds the decision of the plenary meeting held in Gaborone to release
Kimberley Process summary data on trade and production, by value and volume,
and certificate counts for 2004 and 2005 data;
14. Notes with appreciation the assistance and capacity-building efforts
extended by various donors, and encourages other donors to provide financial and
technical expertise to Kimberley Process participants to help them to develop tighter
monitoring and control measures;
15. Acknowledges with great appreciation the important contribution that
Botswana, as Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2006, has made to the efforts to
curb the trade in conflict diamonds, and welcomes the succession of the European
Community as Chair and India as Vice-Chair of the Process for 2007;
16. Requests the Chair of the Kimberley Process to submit a report on the
implementation of the Process to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session;
17. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session
the item entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”.
64th plenary meeting
4 December 2006
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