Stephane Fischler, the new acting President of the World Diamond Council (WDC), told Mining Weekly that the organization “will stay its course, focused on its primary mission of curbing the trade in conflict diamonds”. Fischler replaced Andrey Polyakov as acting president on July 1. He will become president of the organization on May 2018.
Fischler said: “We have succeeded in almost totally eradicating conflict diamonds from the global market. But we have to continually remain vigilant, especially in places such as the Central African Republic (CAR), to stop new supplies of conflict diamonds from entering the market”.
Fischler added that the WDC is in the process of a three-year long review of its Kimberley Process (KP) rules, “in an effort to expand the programme”.
