'Blood diamonds' keep flowing. (Business briefs).More than $400m worth of 'blood diamonds' are flowing from Angola on to world markets each year despite United Nations sanctions Sanctions is the plural of sanction. Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym. Sanctions involving countries: ILLICIT. What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law. Vide Unlawful. 2. diamonds remain in place. It appears that the Belgian Belgian having some relationship to Belgium. Belgian barge dog see schipperke. Belgian black pied cattle black, Belgian dairy cattle. Belgian blue dual-purpose cattle; blue, white or blue roan. and South African markets are two key points of sale or transit for embargoed Embargoed is a UK based human rights organisation campaigning to bring an immediate and unconditional end to all embargoes against the people of Northern Cyprus. Embargoed does not proscribe any political remedy, but considers the embargoes on the people of Northern Cyprus to be diamonds, Israel being used as a laundering route for some imports." The report fingers Angola's Unita rebel forces as the main culprits, although some gems are originating "from mines recaptured from Unita by the (Angolan) government," it says. Sixteen companies are suspected of violating the UN sanctions in the past two years. All have offices in Belgium, four of the 16 are linked to SA companies and three with Israeli firms. |
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