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2012 Plenary Agenda
This document outlines the schedule and agenda for the 2012 Kimberley Process Plenary meeting taking place from November 26-30. The plenary will include sessions for various working groups to discuss issues related to monitoring, statistics, artisanal mining, and review of the Kimberley Process system. There will also be presentations on topics such as country-specific issues, enforcement, the role of the Kimberley Process in development, and national task forces. The final two days will include reports from breakout sessions and adoption of decisions and a communiqué before closing remarks and a press conference.
2012 Plenary Agenda
- 1. Page 1 of 3 2012 KIMBERLEY PROCESS PLENARY www.kimberleyprocess.com MON 26 NOVEMBER 1:00-‐-‐-‐4:00 PM Check-‐-‐-‐in (23rd St. entrance) (Details forthcoming) TUE 27 NOVEMBER 8:30-‐-‐-‐10 Late check-‐-‐-‐in and coffee 10-‐-‐-‐11 PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO MEDIA Welcome Remarks – Loy Henderson Auditorium (1st floor, enter from corridor 1300) Assistant Secretary of State for Economic & Business Affairs José W. Fernandez Kimberley Process (KP) Vice Chair, Hon. Susan Shabangu, Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa Kimberley Process (KP) Chair, Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic President of the World Diamond Council, Mr. Eli Izhakoff Civil Society Coalition Representative 11-‐-‐-‐12 Working Group Chair Presentations 12:00-‐-‐-‐1:15 LUNCH – Adjacent to conference area 1:15-‐-‐-‐2:45 Working Groups Session #1 Working Group on Monitoring (WGM) – Rm. 1105 Working Group on Statistics (WGS) – Rm. 1107 Working Group on Artisanal & Alluvial Production (WGAAP) – Henderson Auditorium Committee on KPCS Review (CKR) – Rm. 1207 2:45-‐-‐-‐3:30 BREAK 3:30-‐-‐-‐5:00 Working Groups Session #2 Committee on KPCS Review (CKR) – Rm. 1207 Participation Committee (PC) – Loy Henderson Working Group on Statistics (WGS)/W.G. of Diamond Experts (WGDE) – Rm. 1105 Selection Committee (SC) – Rm. 1107 WED 28 NOVEMBER 9:00-‐-‐-‐10:30 Working Groups Session #3 Participation Committee (PC) – Rm. 1105 Working Group on Statistics (WGS) – Rm. 1207
- 2. Page 2 of 3 Committee on Rules and Procedures (CRP) – Loy Henderson Auditorium Working Group on Monitoring (WGM)/Friends of Cote D’Ivoire – Rm. 1107 10:30-‐-‐-‐11:15 BREAK 11:15-‐-‐-‐12:45 Working Groups Session #4 Working Group on Monitoring (WGM) – Rm. 1105 (Zimbabwe) Working Group of Diamond Experts (WGDE) – Rm. 1107 Committee on KPCS Review (CKR) – Loy Henderson Auditorium 12:45-‐-‐-‐2:00 LUNCH 2-‐-‐-‐3:30 Working Groups Session #5 Participation Committee (PC) – Rm. 1107 Working Group on Artisanal & Alluvial Production (WGAAP) – Rm. 1105 Committee on Rules and Procedures (CRP) – Loy Henderson Auditorium Working Group on Statistics (WGS) – Rm. 1207 3:30-‐-‐-‐4:15 BREAK 4:15-‐-‐-‐5:45 Working Groups Session #6 Committee on KPCS Review (CKR) – Loy Henderson Auditorium Working Group of Diamond Experts (WGDE) – Rm. 1105 Selection Committee (SC) – Rm. 1107 6:00-‐-‐-‐9:00 Gala Dinner – National Museum of Women in the Arts THU 29 NOVEMBER 9-‐-‐-‐9:45 Selected Topics: Country Specific Issues & Report on the Enforcement Conference 9:45-‐-‐-‐10:45 The KP and Development (led by WGAAP) 10:45-‐-‐-‐11:30 BREAK 11:30-‐-‐-‐12:30 WDC Presentation on ASM Bid; Q&A 12:30-‐-‐-‐1:45 LUNCH 1:45-‐-‐-‐2:45 National Task Forces Presentation (led by Brazil); TBD 2:45-‐-‐-‐3:30 BREAK 3:30-‐-‐-‐5 Breakout Sessions Artisanal/small-‐-‐-‐scale mining – Rm. 1105, Moderator: Maurice Miema Trading/manufacturing – Rm. 1107, Moderators: Sigal Shidlovsky & Johnny Cappelle Large-‐-‐-‐scale mining – Loy Henderson Auditorium, Moderator: Eleanor Flowers
- 3. Page 3 of 3 FRI 30 NOVEMBER 9:00-‐-‐-‐11 Brief Reports on Breakout Sessions; Adoption of Decisions by Plenary, Review and Final Communiqué – Henderson Aud. 11-‐-‐-‐11:45 Closing Remarks by Working Group Chairs, KP Chair Milovanovic and Incoming 2013 KP Chair 12:00 Press Conference – Rm. 1107 PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO MEDIA ACRONYMS ADPA – African Diamond Producing Countries ASM -‐-‐-‐ Administrative Support Mechanism CKR -‐-‐-‐ Committee on KPCS Review (Chaired by Jacob Thamage, Botswana) CRP -‐-‐-‐ Committee on Rules & Procedures (Chaired by Andrey Glinov, Russia) CSC -‐-‐-‐ Civil Society Coalition PC -‐-‐-‐ Participation Committee (Chaired by Mathieu Yamba, Dem. Republic of the Congo) SC -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ Selection Committee (Chaired by Peter Barlerin, United States) WDC -‐-‐-‐ World Diamond Council WGAAP -‐-‐-‐ Working Group on Artisanal & Alluvial Production (Chaired by Paulo Mvika, Angola) WGDE -‐-‐-‐ Working Group of Diamond Experts (Chaired by Mark van Bockstael, WDC) WGM -‐-‐-‐ Working Group on Monitoring (Chaired by Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, EU) WGS -‐-‐-‐ Working Group on Statistics (Chaired by Carolyn Francis, United States)