Peta Thornycroft writes:
(...) Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti has repeatedly said he wants revenue from the Marange fields so he can increase public sector wages. But he added that he wants the Kimberley Process to achieve a consensus on Zimbabwe.
Kimberley Process Chairman Mathieu Yamba, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, says Zimbabwe can legally export the Marange diamonds. But international human-rights groups, backed by some Western countries, including the United States, say consensus on Zimbabwe was not reached at the recent Kimberley Process meeting in Kinshasa. (...)
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