UN / DIAMONDS FUELLING CONFLICT
29-Mar-2023
00:02:24
The General Assembly adopted by consensus its annual resolution on breaking the link between armed conflict and the illicit trade of rough diamonds. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / DIAMONDS FUELLING CONFLICT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
TRT: 02:24
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
29 MARCH 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Botswana:
“The annual consideration of this agenda item provides an opportunity for the General Assembly to renew its commitment to ensuring that diamonds remain a force for economic development instead of the driver of armed conflict.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Botswana:
“In our country, diamonds are for development. As members of this Assembly may be aware, diamonds are the mainstream and mainstay of Botswana’s economy. And they have been so for the last five decades, and a little bit more. Diamonds currently contribute a quarter of our GDP and more than 90 percent of our foreign export earnings.”
6. Close up, acting President of the General Assembly
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fanday Turay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sierra Leone:
“Most of the African continent is dependent on proceeds from sales of diamonds and resources. Diamonds alone represents an industry worth over $81.4 billion by year with more than 50 percent of global production sourced from Africa. You can therefore appreciate the value we place on this very important subject matter and the discussion of natural diamonds in its entirety.”
8. Wide shot, General Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Fanday Turay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sierra Leone:
“The unanimous adoption of this important resolution therefore reconfirms the importance of the diamond sector in promoting socio economic development in Africa.”
10. Wide shot, General Assembly
11. UPSOUND (English) Brian Wallace, Permanent Representative from Jamaica and acting President of the General Assembly:
“May I take it that the Assembly decides to adopt draft resolution a 7761? It is so decided.”
12. Wide shot, Member States in the audience
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
29 MARCH 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Botswana:
“The annual consideration of this agenda item provides an opportunity for the General Assembly to renew its commitment to ensuring that diamonds remain a force for economic development instead of the driver of armed conflict.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Botswana:
“In our country, diamonds are for development. As members of this Assembly may be aware, diamonds are the mainstream and mainstay of Botswana’s economy. And they have been so for the last five decades, and a little bit more. Diamonds currently contribute a quarter of our GDP and more than 90 percent of our foreign export earnings.”
6. Close up, acting President of the General Assembly
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fanday Turay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sierra Leone:
“Most of the African continent is dependent on proceeds from sales of diamonds and resources. Diamonds alone represents an industry worth over $81.4 billion by year with more than 50 percent of global production sourced from Africa. You can therefore appreciate the value we place on this very important subject matter and the discussion of natural diamonds in its entirety.”
8. Wide shot, General Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Fanday Turay, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sierra Leone:
“The unanimous adoption of this important resolution therefore reconfirms the importance of the diamond sector in promoting socio economic development in Africa.”
10. Wide shot, General Assembly
11. UPSOUND (English) Brian Wallace, Permanent Representative from Jamaica and acting President of the General Assembly:
“May I take it that the Assembly decides to adopt draft resolution a 7761? It is so decided.”
12. Wide shot, Member States in the audience
STORYLINE
The General Assembly adopted by consensus its annual resolution on breaking the link between armed conflict and the illicit trade of rough diamonds.
The resolution was introduced on Wednesday (29 Mar) by Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana, who said that “rhe annual consideration of this agenda item provides an opportunity for the General Assembly to renew its commitment to ensuring that diamonds remain a force for economic development instead of the driver of armed conflict.”
Botswana is the outgoing chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the process established in 2003 to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by a Assembly Resolution.
Kwape said, “In our country, diamonds are for development. As members of this Assembly may be aware, diamonds are the mainstream and mainstay of Botswana’s economy. And they have been so for the last five decades, and a little bit more. Diamonds currently contribute a quarter of our GDP and more than 90 percent of our foreign export earnings.”
Representing the African Union, the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone, Fanday Turay, noted that “most of the African continent is dependent on proceeds from sales of diamonds and resources.”
Turay added, “Diamonds alone represents an industry worth over $81.4 billion by year with more than 50 percent of global production sourced from Africa. You can therefore appreciate the value we place on this very important subject matter and the discussion of natural diamonds in its entirety.”
The resolution was introduced on Wednesday (29 Mar) by Lemogang Kwape, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana, who said that “rhe annual consideration of this agenda item provides an opportunity for the General Assembly to renew its commitment to ensuring that diamonds remain a force for economic development instead of the driver of armed conflict.”
Botswana is the outgoing chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the process established in 2003 to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by a Assembly Resolution.
Kwape said, “In our country, diamonds are for development. As members of this Assembly may be aware, diamonds are the mainstream and mainstay of Botswana’s economy. And they have been so for the last five decades, and a little bit more. Diamonds currently contribute a quarter of our GDP and more than 90 percent of our foreign export earnings.”
Representing the African Union, the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone, Fanday Turay, noted that “most of the African continent is dependent on proceeds from sales of diamonds and resources.”
Turay added, “Diamonds alone represents an industry worth over $81.4 billion by year with more than 50 percent of global production sourced from Africa. You can therefore appreciate the value we place on this very important subject matter and the discussion of natural diamonds in its entirety.”
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