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Marange, Chiadzwa and other diamond fields and the Kimberley Process - Index of articles
Handling of diamonds must be transparent
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
June 22, 2011
The Kimberley
Process meeting this week in Kinshasa offers a welcome opportunity
for an agreement to be reached between the KP and Zimbabwe on the
sale of the Zimbabwe diamonds on the international market.
The people of Zimbabwe in general and our civil servants in particular
would tremendously benefit from the revenue generated from the sale
of diamonds. To this end, the MDC's position is that our country
should be compliant with the International requirements. This unmitigated
compliance with the international requirements would ensure that
there is uninterrupted flow of revenue into the country.
Although considerable
progress has been made towards compliance, the MDC calls upon the
government to ensure that all the domestic obstacles to full compliance
are removed.
The MDC calls
on the KP to offer practical assistance to Zimbabwe in order to
ensure that it is fully compliant with its requirements. It is clear
if the diamonds are traded legitimately this would assist in the
economic recovery of Zimbabwe.
The MDC believes
diamonds and other mineral resources belong to the people of Zimbabwe
and must be exploited for national benefit in a transparent manner.
The current system under which the military is heavily involved
in the mining and marketing of diamond with revenues undeclared
to the national fiscus is clearly unacceptable.
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