1.   The authorities placed strict restrictions on diamond exports.

2.   Mogae also warned that Botswana could not continue to depend on diamond exports.

3.   By accepting Liberian diamond exports as legitimate, the diamond industry supports this destructive trade.

4.   In July, the United Nations Security Council imposed a global ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone, where the stones have helped finance a brutal war.

5.   Next week, De Beers officials are scheduled to fly to Moscow for negotiations with Russian producers on diamond exports.

6.   The other two would impose an embargo on arms sales and diamond exports and enlarge the U.N. peacekeeping force and strengthen its powers.

7.   The two reports, commissioned by the Security Council, examine the subversion of U.N. sanctions against illicit diamond exports from Angola and Sierra Leone.

8.   The U.N. Security Council imposed a global ban this month on diamond exports from Sierra Leone, where the stones have fueled a savage rebel war.

9.   Already, there are national certification systems in Angola and Sierra Leone to allow those governments to continue exporting diamonds while a ban on rebel diamond exports is enforced.

10.   But officials are concerned that it might also allow diamond exports out of Russia aside from those going through ARS.