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India has a very strong and important diamond industry
that employs millions of people and earns billions
of dollars. There is a large amount of certified
stones from this industry, which means that the Indian
government follows the measures established by the
Kimberley Process and that the diamonds go through
a certification scheme to verify that they are, indeed,
legitimate and appropriate to enter the worldwide market,
without fueling any conflict. Therefore it can be said
that:
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India has a well developed law on mutual assist criminal
matters which enables it to seek from and extend cooperation
to foreign States in respect of mutual legal assistance in
criminal matters. India has concluded Mutual Legal Assistance
Treaties with 26 countries and 5 more Treaties are under
negotiation. To ensure a greater sense of security within
the South Asian region, recently at the Fifteenth Summit
of the SAARC, a Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters was adopted which allows Member States
to provide each other the greatest measure of mutual assistance
in criminal matters..
Russia is another country part to the Kimberley Process,
adopting its measures in order to avoid the trade
of diamonds originated in conflict areas. The diamonds
from Russian origin go through a certification scheme
to ensure that they are, in fact, licit and legitimate diamonds.
The country is an important diamond source,
being the world’s second largest, which means that a
large amount of the diamonds being sent to worldwide
market have their origin in the Russian country. The G8
Summit Declaration on Counter-Terrorism highlighted
12 priorities of anti-terrorist work jointly with partners
from other countries, each of which are self explaining:
• Implementing and upgrading the global legal
framework on the counter-terrorism;
• Assuring national legislation is adjusted, in
an appropriate way, to lead new terrorist defi
ance’s;
• Attempts by terrorists must be repressed in or
der to receive entrance to weapons and other
wherewithal of mass destruction;
• Engaging in assiduous dialogue with civilian so
ciety to assist to prevent terrorism;
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• Improving efforts to combat that terrorism is fi
nanced based on consented standards;
• Implementing and developing an successful
strategy to fight against terrorist recruitment
and publicity, including the ones related to the
utilization of suicide bombers;
• Successfully countering attempts to abuse cy
berspace for terrorist finalities, including provo
cation to perpetrate terrorist acts, to plan and
communicate about terrorist acts, even as train
ing and recruitment of terrorists;
• Avoiding any misuse of the migration polity for
terrorist reasons while at the equal legitimate
travel is time facilitating;
• Bringing to justice, in accordance with liabili
ties beneath international law, the ones that
are culprit of terrorist acts, likewise their sup
porters and sponsors, those who stimulate ter
rorist acts and those whose plans are the acts;
• Assuring and foment respect for international
law, with international human rights law as
part of it, humanitarian law and refugee law in
our entire counter-terrorism efforts;
• Promoting supplies chain safety, based on pre
vailing international best practices and stan
dards;;
• Promoting international cooperation in road
safety, subway and rail and increase standards
in maritime security and aviations.
Lebanon has been involved in the importation of
rough diamonds, creating concern that the profit coming
from these illicit diamonds could be used to finance
African conflicts and consequently fund the terrorism in
the continent. Lebanon customs data published online
showed that industrial rough diamonds worth US$ 156
million were imported during 2005, investigation has
taken place, but nobody has been charged or has been
under investigation.