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Reuters
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Helen Reid

When you buy diamonds, think of Bucha

FILE PHOTO: An employee shows rough diamonds at a sorting centre, owned by Alrosa company, in Moscow, October 18, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin//File Photo

Consumers should think twice when buying diamonds that could be funding Russia's war, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday as a fraught international conflict diamond forum in Botswana came to an inconclusive end.

The Kimberley Process (KP), a coalition of governments, the diamond industry and civil society representatives responsible for certifying diamonds as conflict-free, is split over a push to expand its definition of conflict diamonds to include those funding aggression by states.

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