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Marange, Chiadzwa and other diamond fields and the Kimberley Process - Index of articles
Interim
report to the Working Group on Monitoring and Kimberly Process Chair
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)
July 15, 2009
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Background
Pursuant to
the Mandate established by the Working Group on Monitoring ("WGM"),
a team of 10 individuals -- representing 5 Participant governments,
1 Regional Economic Integration Organization, the World Diamond
Council, and civil society ("the Team") - conducted
a Review Mission to Zimbabwe from 30 June - 4 July, 2009.
Liberia, represented by A. Kpandel Fayia, Deputy Minister for Planning
and Development in the Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy, served
as Chair of the Review Mission.
The Team, in conjunction
with the Government of Zimbabwe, established an ambitious program
to cover the full range of issues set forth in the Mandate, which
focused on overall compliance by Zimbabwe with the minimum requirements
of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ("KPCS"),
as well as particular assessment of the situation in and around
the Marange diamond fields, located in the Chiadzwa region. The
Team spent two days conducting meetings and interviews in each of
Harare and Chiadzwa/Mutare (city closest to Chiadzwa); the Team
also spent one day visiting both the Murowa and River Ranch mines.
The Team received complete
cooperation from the Government of Zimbabwe, and all requests for
meetings were granted, including with MP Shuah Mudiwa, whom the
Team met in a prison in Mutare. In addition, all conditions established
by the Team for certain meetings, e.g. that there be no representatives
present from the Government, were respected. Further, the Team received
verbal assurances that there would be no consequences for anyone
who met with, or otherwise provided information to, the Team.
The Team is in the process
of preparing its complete report but concluded that an interim update
to the WGM and KP Chair was appropriate and necessary, given the
volume of information, procedural requirements for a final report,
and the urgency of -- and attention given by the international community
to -- the situation.
In sum, the
Team assesses that, although certain operations and processes appear
to continue to function in a manner consistent with KPCS minimum
requirements, there are serious indications of non-compliance with
the KPCS in a number of areas, primarily related to the situation
at Marange but also including some of the procedures used by the
Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe ("MMCZ").
Although the Team reviewed and took note of a wide array of information
prior to the Review Mission, the indications of non-compliance identified
are substantiated by direct evidence that the Team gathered during
the mission.
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