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IDI meets with new Sierra Leone president

January 22, 2008

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Freetown, Sierra Leone—The Israel Diamond Institute (IDI) continued its global-outreach mission last week, when IDI Managing Director Eli Avidar met with the newly elected president of the now-peaceful Sierra Leone.

The meeting between Avidar and Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma took place in Freetown, the country's capital.

Avidar invited Koroma to be a keynote speaker at the Third International Rough Diamond Conference, scheduled for Feb. 11-12 in Tel Aviv, Israel. According to the IDI, Koroma plans to make "every effort" to rearrange his schedule so he can attend the conference. If he cannot, he will send a high-ranking official in his place.

The president and Avidar also discussed Sierra Leone's efforts to help its people benefit from diamonds.

Koroma was voted into office during the country's most recent elections in September. According to the IDI, it was a "peaceful transfer of power" that "serves as a model of democracy much appreciated by the international community."

The new Sierra Leone stands in sharp contrast to the nation that was torn apart by civil war in the late 1990s, a war fueled by conflict diamonds, as illustrated in the 2006 movie Blood Diamond.
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