KP must not be used — AAG

The Affimative Action Group (AAG) president Phillip Chiyangwa says despite the Kimberly Process (KP) being a non-political platform, a clique of members from Western governments, have disreputably used it to advance their foreign policy agenda on Zimbabwe, almost to the extent of tarnishing and discrediting the grouping.

Chiyangwa said since the discovery of diamonds, the international community through surrogate institutions both locally and internationally has tried endlessly to block Zimbabwe’s right to trade in its diamonds.

“It is no longer a secret that even in the absence of any hard facts, the eurocentric civil society organisations in the KP have gone to extreme lengths to manufacture lies in an attempt to discredit government effort to ensure that all companies that meet the KP certification standards are given a clean bill of health to conduct their business freely,” said Chiyangwa.

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