The 7^th annual meeting of World Diamond Council

Amid growing concern over human rights violations and atrocities committed against innocent victims in diamond producing countries of war-torn northern Africa, the World Federation of Diamond Bourses and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association passed a resolution at the 29^th World Diamond Congress in Antwerp in July 2000, creating the World Diamond Council. The resolution called for the newly formed WDC to include representation from the diamond industry itself and also from among countries where diamonds play a major economic role and from the international banking sector. The ultimate mandate for the World Diamond Council is the development, implementation and oversight of a tracking system for the export and import of rough diamonds to prevent the exploitation of diamonds for illicit purposes such as war and inhumane acts. Human rights activists refer to diamonds exploited in this way as "blood" or "conflict" diamonds.

The annual WDC meeting will be held from July 14 through July 15, 2010. For the first time the meeting will take place in one of the most beautiful cities of the world – St. Petersburg, that is justly called Russia’s jewellery capital.

The program  of the meeting includes committees working and plenary sessions which, along with the regular WDC members, will be attended by senior officials from the government of St. Petersburg, representatives of the RF authorities, business and non-government organizations that represent the Russian diamond and jewellery business

The participants of the meeting and their accompanying persons will be offered visa support, special accommodation rates, airport meeting service and “airport-hotel-airport” transfers. A special cultural program will be organized for the participants’ accompanying persons during the working sessions.

The official agent of the 7^th annual WDC meeting is the RESTEC®EVENTS.

The official media-partner is the RESTEC JUNWEX

The official information portal is www.rjexpert.ru

The official magazine is "Jewellery RUSSIA"

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