if it is discovered that they're extracting and are selling conflict minerals aside from the kimberley process it is being very tough actually for example taken against. countries like brazil which a slope of africa going to is also being made to to bring itself into the plants there are concerns but if you are going to like venezuela which has one of oil or symbolic way which is being. under k.p. review between two thousand and nine and two thousand and seven. the press the worst human rights abuses since the process started. in samoa was a case that they would have to fifteen to twenty percent of the world's. supply by production not by value but by production and that by as you've been. in the process it's a consensus based organization or initiative so i only need to do is find one friend to two to be on your side who start a consensus decision on something and bob's your uncle i won't wear diamonds but i know. a lot of people really love them and you know this christmas what advice can you give to people to buy a band and know that they're not getting a conflict diamond. question i think

partnership africa canada to discuss the current state of the diamond trade i first asked him how the kimberley process came about and if it's doing enough to curb the violence surrounding these gems. diamonds are. very valuable they're very small the very valuable in the very easy to move across borders and that means that they are rebels that's essentially the reason why you came across today is because rebel rebel movements ten years ago fifteen years ago were. mining and trading these things often includes. a company such as to be errors and mining centers and training centers in antwerp and even elsewhere they were quite happy to take your time and without asking many difficult questions. so if you think about the cost of funding a civil war for example you go to places where there's in the middle east or whether it's asia or even africa you can buy by maybe forty seven four hundred bucks if you would if you're trading diamonds with a couple million that's that's that's one of the here forty seven by a lot of may and cause and what countries do you see conflict diamonds being produced the most and

no matter what one might say to put the central african republic back in to groups like the kimberley process certification. what does the group that certified diamonds for sale on the world market. they were thrown out a few months ago and they're not coming back the european union has cut off aid. so the number of troops there. if you want to go out into the countryside and pacify the country. well remember when france was in indochina. this is what we're looking at here so why why did france. we've heard the defense minister say this is going to be a tough permission and mom. why is france and turkey. my personal belief. the trust will fall on this in a foreign policy in a coffin their speed. i don't see why he's going or if you're going to help this country. and how the people who are being slaughtered. you're looking to put troops on the nation's military one is covered wars you can spend time with the military will tell you this about me. when you have over sixty percent of the population in rural areas that you can get to where this water is going on. you can do it with a few thousand