We Only Sell Conflict Free
Diamonds
Our Policy
The
London Victorian Ring Company
require s
written warranties from all our diamond suppliers stating
that the diamonds have been purchased from legitimate
sources and have not been involved in the funding of
conflict.
We
only trade with diamond suppliers who belong to the World
Federation of Diamond Bourses. The
London Victorian Ring Company is
a member of The London Diamond Bourse and Club, part of
the World Federation of Diamond Bourses. This organization
helps
to implement the Kimberly Process to ensure that conflict
diamonds do not enter the legitimate diamond market.
Our Guarantee
Our invoices for diamond
jewellery carry the following guarantee:
The diamonds herein
invoiced have been purchased from legitimate sources not
involved in funding conflict and in compliance with United
Nations resolutions. The seller hereby guarantees that
these diamonds are conflict free, based on personal
knowledge and/or written guarantees provided by the
supplier of these diamonds.
What are Conflict
Diamonds?
The United Nations defines conflict diamonds as
"diamonds that originate from areas controlled by
forces or factions opposed to legitimate and
internationally recognized governments, and are used to
fund military action in opposition to those governments,
or in contravention of the decisions of the Security
Council."
What is being done?
World Diamond Council
The World
Federation of Diamond Bourses and the International
Diamond Manufacturers Association passed a resolution at
their Antwerp meeting in July 2000, creating the World
Diamond Council.
The resolution called for
the newly formed WDC to include representation from the
diamond industry itself and also from among countries
where diamonds play a major economic role and from the
international banking sector. The ultimate mandate for the
World Diamond Council is the development, implementation
and oversight of a tracking system for the export and
import of rough diamonds to prevent the exploitation of
diamonds for illicit purposes such as war and inhumane
acts. Human rights activists refer to diamonds exploited
in this way as blood diamonds or conflict diamonds.
Kimberley Process
Under the Kimberley
Process, diamond shipments can only be exported and
imported within co-participant countries in the Kimberley
Process. Only certified shipments of rough diamonds
are permitted to enter or leave a participant's country.
Trade between participants and non-participants
is not allowed.
Diamonds are monitored from
mining through to retail in order to prevent diamonds from
areas of conflict entering into the legitimate diamond
supply chain. These monitoring processes are called the
Kimberley Process.
We are
members of both the British Jewellers' Association and the
London Diamond Bourse and Club.
 
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