Having stemmed flow of conflict diamonds, new WDC acting president to stay course

The World Diamond Council (WDC) will stay its course, focused on its primary mission of curbing the trade in conflict diamonds, under new acting president Stephane Fischler, who took the helm on July 1 from Andrey Polyakov, who has resigned. “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 told Mining Weekly Online in a telephone interview from Antwerp, Belgium.