{"id":53825,"date":"2022-10-25T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53825"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T00:52:56","slug":"state-department-meets-with-u-s-diamond-industry-to-discuss-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53825","title":{"rendered":"State Department Meets with U.S. Diamond Industry to Discuss Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>10\/25\/2022 05:01 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination,\u00a0Ambassador James O\u2019Brien, led an interagency discussion October 24 with the U.S. offices of leading diamond retailers, manufacturers, and laboratories.\u00a0 The meeting focused on the importance of the diamond industry\u2019s robust implementation of Russia-focused sanctions and broader due diligence standards, including as applicable to Russian-backed actors around the globe.\u00a0 The United States remains committed to imposing economic consequences on Russia for its unprovoked war in Ukraine and destabilizing activities across Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/25\/2022 05:01 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53826,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53825\/revisions\/53826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}