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Final communiqué from the Kimberley Process Plenary meeting, Washington, D.C.
Kimberley Process (KP)
November 30, 2012

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1. The Tenth Kimberley Process (KP) Plenary meeting convened from 27-30 November 2012 in Washington, D.C. Delegations from 39 KP Participants and Observers from the World Diamond Council (WDC), the Civil Society Coalition (CSC), the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) and the African Diamond Producing Countries (ADPA) attended. The Kingdom of Cambodia, The Republic of Kazakhstan, The Republic of Kenya, The Republic of Mali and The Republic of Panama (non-participating countries who had expressed their interest in joining), along with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations (UN) attended as Guests of the Chair.

2. The Participation Committee (PC), the Committee on Rules and Procedures (CRP), Working Group on Monitoring (WGM), the Working Group on Statistics (WGS), the Working Group on Artisanal and Alluvial Production (WGAAP), the Committee on KPCS Review (CKR), the Working Group of Diamond Experts (WGDE), and the Selection Committee (SC) held meetings at the Plenary.

3. The Plenary endorsed the recommendation of the Participation Committee to admit The Republic of Panama, The Republic of Kazakhstan, and The Kingdom of Cambodia as KP Participants. The Plenary welcomed the August admission of The Republic of Cameroon as a KP Participant via written procedure and the admission of ADPA as an Independent Observer.

4. As recommended by the PC, the Plenary added The Republic of Zimbabwe and The Democratic Republic of Congo as members of the PC and ADPA as a permanent independent Observer member in the PC.

5. The Plenary acknowledged that the PC welcomed a presentation by The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which asserted its intention to reintegrate into the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. In light of this expression of continued interest, the PC reached consensus to approach reintegration by the submission of accurate statistics and the completion of a successful Review Mission with participation of Participants, the WDC and the CSC, and an invitation to access to all diamond producing and trading facilities. If these steps are not taken by April 1, 2013, the Plenary regretted that appropriate actions will be taken, which may ultimately lead to Venezuela being removed from the KP.

6. The Plenary adopted the Revised Guidelines for the PC in Recommending Interim Measures as Regards Serious Non-compliance with KPCS Minimum Requirements.

7. The Plenary took note of the result of the 2012 annual reporting process as the main comprehensive and regular source of information on KPCS implementation by Participants, and welcomed the submission of annual reports on KPCS implementation in 2011 by 49 Participants representing 75 countries. The Plenary requested that the KP Chair and the PC engage with one Participant, Indonesia, that has again failed to submit its annual report, to call upon it to conform with this requirement at the earliest possible date. The Plenary reviewed the assessment of annual reports and called upon the WGM to explore ways of further improving the assessment mechanism and encouraged Participants to submit substantive annual reports on national KP implementation in line with the Guidelines on annual reports.

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