Ian Smillie, one of the architects of the Kimberley Process (KP), announced his withdrawal from the leadership of the NGO Partnership Africa-Canada. On June 2, 2009, he gave an interview to the newspaper Le Temps, in which he linked his resignation with the extremely low efficiency of the CP in a number of diamond-producing countries: Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Guinea, as well as uncontrolled diamond traffic In the Middle East - in Lebanon. In fact, Ian Smilli acknowledged the failure of the KP Certification Scheme, confirming the possibility of acquiring KP Certificates by shadow dealers using corrupt schemes and even describing the approximate cost of such a transaction: "For a person with rough diamonds worth several tens of millions of dollars, paying $ 50,000 for a Kimberley certificate is nothing".

We could discuss with Ian Smilli about the size of the bribe - according to our information, in the countries he mentions in his interview, as well as in dozens of other, equally civilized member states, getting the notorious certificate costs the smugglers ten times cheaper. But this does not change the fundamental picture, and we willingly agree with the disappointed Ian Smilli that the KP was ineffective in achieving the declared goals. Since there is no secret to this unfortunate circumstance for a long time, it would be very interesting to answer the question - why did I see Smilly's epiphany right now, during the unprecedented crisis of the diamond market?

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