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Press Release: South African Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, the chair of the Kimberley Process in 2013, has confirmed that he will attend as a guest of honor the ninth annual meeting of the World Diamond Council (WDC), which will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 5 and 6, 2013. He will address the Plenary Session. Ambassador Nhlapo, who assumed the post of chairman at the beginning of 2013, earlier served as South African Ambassador to Washington, D.C. He has also served as National Security Special Adviser to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and as South Africa's Special Representative to the Great Lakes countries, including Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Also confirming his attendance at the WDC annual meeting is Tung-Lai Margue, the director and head of the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments of the European Commission, which is the EU body that oversees the Kimberley Process compliance in the EU. Margue also will address the Plenary Session. The WDC annual meeting, which will gather together leaders of the diamond and jewelry industries from around the world, as well as representatives of government and civil society, is the official forum for the General Assembly of the WDC. The host of the meeting will be the Israel Diamond Institute Group of Companies. The first day of the annual meeting, May 5, will include a WDC board meeting and a get-together reception in the evening. The second day, May 6, will include the WDC Plenary Session, and it will conclude with a gala dinner. The dedicated WDC annual meeting website, which enables registration for the meeting as well as the booking of hotel accommodation at special rates, is located at: http://meeting2013.worlddiamondcouncil.org/ Rapaport News is not responsible for, and does not endorse, the content of any third-party press release. This is not a Rapaport Press Release. It has been provided as additional information for our clients.
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