Ivory Coast is seeking a lift on the ban of its diamond exports, reports say. For this it plans to appeal to the United Nations in April this year, when its Mining Ministry will be in New York.

The UN Security Council banned diamond exports and laid other regulations following Ivory Coast’s civil war in 2002-2003 and later chose to continued these regulations and embargo until end-April 2014 after the second civil war in 2011.

In 2013, the UN Security Council agreed to review the ban based on Ivory Coast’s progress in complying with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). In the November plenary in Johannesburg, the KPCS recognized Ivory Coast to having fulfilled the KPCS minimum requirements ‘as possibly could be achieved under the UN embargo,’ reports say.

in April, in New York, the Ministry plans to approach the Council and demonstrate progress made. Ivory Coasts’ president Alassane Ouattara's government had laid a system to register diamond workers and track production, reports say.