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If De Beers is lucky, Angola's political troubles will contain the flow of diamonds outside the company's control.

About 300 staff were told on Friday that they would be leaving 17 Charterhouse Street, from where De Beers once controlled the flow of diamonds around the world.

Distributing its stock through its Central Selling Organization, De Beers exercises tight control over the flow of diamonds into the market, effectively helping it sustain high prices even when supply outstrips demand.

De Beers controls 70percentt of the world's trade in uncut stones -- a position that enables it to dictate prices by regulating the flow of diamonds from its Central Selling Organization in London.

However, Judge Lussick said in return for a constant flow of diamonds, Taylor provided arms and both logistical and moral support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels - prolonging the conflict and the suffering of the people of Sierra Leone.

To correct this, the syndicate were forced to reduce the flow of diamonds from British Guiana, which they did by getting Oppenheimer to reduce the price of Guianan diamonds to the point where the company output dropped from 2000 carat a month to less than 300 carat per month.

The Kimberley process was designed to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, says Willie Nagel, an international diamond trader who was instrumental in setting it up, but "conflict-free diamonds should not be confused with ethical diamonds".

The system is specifically designed to stem the flow of rough diamonds used by rebel movements to finance wars against legitimate governments.

By building on the Kimberley Process, a joint initiative by governments, industry and civil society to stem the flow of rough diamonds used by rebel movements to finance wars against legitimate governments, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Natural Resource Charter could set new global standards.

Eli Izhakoff of the World Diamond Council, an industry body based in New York, says the new rules mean "the industry is changing it is nothing like it was four or five years ago .But although the regulations make it easier to track the flow of rough diamonds, they have not required De Beers to open all its books to public scrutiny.

The Kimberley Process came into effect ten years ago to stem the flow of rough diamonds used by rebel movements in Africa to finance wars against legitimate governments.