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Cote d'Ivoire: Security Council Lifts Rough Diamond Ban, Tweaks Arms Embargo
UN News, 29 April 2014
The United Nations Security Council today voted unanimously to lift a ban on importing rough diamonds from Côte d'Ivoire and to partially lift the arms embargo,… Read more »
UN Lifts Diamond Ban on Cote d' Ivoire
The UN Security Council has voted to lift a ban on the importation of rough diamonds from Cote d' Ivoire. The council also amended its arms embargo on the country to allow for the supply of "non-lethal equipment" to the Ivorian security forces.
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Cote d'Ivoire: UN Lifts Diamond Export Embargo
DW, 29 April 2014
The UN Security Council has removed a ban on Ivory Coast's diamond trade and eased an arms embargo. The West African nation has been pushing for months to legally restart exporting… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Ambbassador Delaurentis On Adoption of U.N. Resolution On Côte d'Ivoire
State Department, 29 April 2014
U.S. Mission to the United Nations Read more »
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Africa: Europe Welcomes Ban on CAR Diamonds
EU External Action, 22 November 2013
Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the outcome of the Plenary Meeting of the Kimberley Process in Johannesburg. The spokesperson of… Read more »
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Africa: Talks Fail to Redefine 'Blood Diamonds'
DW, 22 November 2013
At a four-day meeting in Johannesburg, Kimberley Process delegates called for stiffer penalties for those dealing in blood diamonds. However, they failed to come up with a broader… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: Allegations of Illegal Diamond Exports
U.S. Embassy Abidjan, 1 March 2012
Meanwhile, a prominent headline in Le Nouveau Courrier (p. 1) suggests that "the government of President Ouattara is at the center of a diamond trafficking scandal." The paper… Read more »
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Cote d'Ivoire: UN Security Council Extends Arms Embargo On Cote d'Ivoire
UN News, 25 April 2013
Maintaining that Cote d'Ivoire was still vulnerable to instability fuelled by available weapons, the United Nations Security Council today extended its arms embargo on the West… Read more »
InFocus
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for full compliance with the arms embargo placed on Côte d'Ivoire in the wake of reports that Belarus has provided attack helicopters to ... Read more »
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The United States on Tuesday announced a travel ban and other visa restrictions against Laurent Gbagbo of Cote dIvoire, members of his government and their immediate family ... Read more »
