Chair of the Kimberley Process (KP) from the UAE Ahmed Bin Sulayem (Ahmed Bin Sulayem), has proposed a fair and independent funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under the KP Certification Scheme.
Under the proposal, headed by the chairman of the KP to establish a fund that would allow African NGOs to participate on equal terms in the review visits and missions, as well as intersessional and plenary meetings of the KP as observers, according to a press statement.
KP Chair stated that he intends to ensure that a decision on his proposal was included in the final communiqué of the upcoming plenary session of the KP in Dubai 13-17 November. After that, until the end of the year it should be taken by the UN General Assembly.
The proposal to establish a fair and independent funding for African NGOs follows the recent invitation of the Chairman KP directed to all members of the Coalition of Civil Society (Civil Society Coalition, CSC), to be present at the forthcoming plenary session of the KP in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Minister of Mines of Zimbabwe Chidakva Walter (Walter Chidhakwa) noted that the country's authorities intend to combine the assets of companies from the Marange diamond (Marange), because their license expired a long time ago - in 2011 or 2013 respectively.
The minister told Rough & Polished, after his speech at the African Council on Mining in Cape Town that the opinion of that official Harare consolidates diamond companies, is erroneous.
"All companies that operated in the region Chiadzwa (Chiadzwa) Marange mining license expired in 2013 and even in 2011. We will not renew their license, so it is not entirely consolidation. We will gather the assets of the companies, leaving the country in favor of one company, which is called the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond company (ZCDC) " .
He said that the real beginning of the consolidation measures will be taken in the next two months.
Meanwhile, Chidakva said that Harare will soon start negotiations with the Rio Zim, which owns the mine Murowa kimberlite (Murowa). The topic of discussion will be possible further steps of the state and the company itself.
Previously it was thought that Harare would like to consolidate all diamond companies in the country, including Murowa Diamonds and DTZ-OZGEO.
The state Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) owned to 50 percent stake in the new diamond company, and the remaining 50% would be distributed among the firms that participated in the consolidation.
Nevertheless, the media speculated that related to Russia DTZ-OZGEO, which operates in the region of Chimanimani (Chimanimani) in recent reports, will continue to operate without having to make their assets in ZCDC.
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