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De Beers diamond urges action on “conflict diamonds”

    JOHANNESBURG

    Diamond giant De Beers says that a “collective response to the issue of diamonds being used as a source of funding for rebel armies in Africa” was needed, news reports said on Wednesday.

    De Beers was quoted as saying that it would urge that traders dealing in so-called “conflict diamonds” should be expelled from the world diamond community at the World Diamond Congress in Antwerp, Belgium, in July.

    De Beers said it put conflict diamonds - largely from rebel movements in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone - at four percent of the world total and said its own diamonds, sold through the London-based Central Selling Organization, were “conflict free”.

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