{"id":14493,"date":"2012-09-12T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/un-says-liberia-lacks-resolve-to-stamp-out-blood-diamond-trade\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:00","slug":"un-says-liberia-lacks-resolve-to-stamp-out-blood-diamond-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-says-liberia-lacks-resolve-to-stamp-out-blood-diamond-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says Liberia lacks resolve to stamp out blood-diamond trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Trade helped fuel Liberia&#8217;s 1989-2003 civil war<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Report says Liberia&#8217;s capacity to regulate weak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Liberia issuing forestry permits with limited obligations<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Liberia is showing only<br \/>\nlimited commitment to efforts to stop the trade in blood<br \/>\ndiamonds that has fueled conflicts in Africa, U.N.<br \/>\nSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report to the U.N. Security Council said Liberia&#8217;s<br \/>\ncapacity to control diamond mining and trade &#8211; a vital part of<br \/>\nthe global Kimberly Process agreed in 2003 to regulate the $30<br \/>\nbillion rough-diamond industry &#8211; remained weak.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It said Liberia&#8217;s presidential taskforce on diamonds had not<br \/>\nmet in a year, while its technical committee convened in July<br \/>\nfor the first time in seven months.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Limited commitment to comply with the minimum standards of<br \/>\nthe Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds<br \/>\nremains apparent,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It said the U.S. Agency for International Development had<br \/>\nsignaled it would stop funding a program to help the Liberian<br \/>\ngovernment improve compliance with the Kimberley Process, partly<br \/>\ndue to Liberia&#8217;s lack of commitment to the scheme.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Trade helped fuel Liberia&#8217;s 1989-2003 civil war * Report says Liberia&#8217;s capacity to regulate weak * Liberia issuing forestry permits with limited obligations By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Liberia is showing only limited commitment to efforts to stop the trade in blood diamonds that has fueled conflicts in Africa, U.N. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}