World Diamond Council hopeful of Kimberley Process scope expansion in 2019

The World Diamond Council (WDC) has reiterated its support for the Kimberley Process (KP) certification scheme to end trade in conflict diamonds, while expressing concern over the progress in reforming its scope.

In a press statement issued after the conclusion of the 2018 KP plenary meeting, in Belgium, the WDC said the KP plenary’s final communique of the submission by the Canadian government of an expanded definition of conflict diamonds, which had been proposed by the WDC and another KP observer, the Civil Society Coalition, was a positive development.