European Conflict Diamonds Meeting To Be Held in Brussels

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(Rapaport…September 24, 2001) The Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa(NiZA) is holding a meeting in Brussels on September 25 that will examine the problematic flow of conflict diamonds into European countries. The meeting, which will be called “EU Control of Diamond Imports from African Countries in Conflict,” will incorporate the findings of a case study that discovered problems with the implementation of UN sanctions and EU regulations with respect to the import of conflict diamonds.