Angola Polishes Less Than 5 Percent of Diamond Produced

Luanda — The country has the capacity to cut less than five percent of the diamond produced in Angola, a fact that has led to most of the rough diamond's production being exported, the executive secretary of the National Commission for the Kimberley Process, Estanislau Buio said Wednesday in Luanda.

Speaking on the theme, "Angola's contribution to the Kimberley Process certification system and ongoing reforms," as part of a capacity-building seminar for economic journalists, he said that the four polishing factories in the country were still "unable to transform the 20% of production allocated by the Diamond Commercialisation Policy Code.

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