WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration has granted visas to two senior officials from Zimbabwe to attend a meeting of an international body charged with monitoring and preventing the sale of blood diamonds, despite human rights concerns and financial sanctions against the pair.
The State Department said Sunday that Zimbabwe's attorney general and minister of mines would be part of the country's delegation to the U.S.-hosted meeting of the Kimberley Process that begins on Monday. The department would not confirm that the two men had been given visas, citing privacy concerns, but officials acknowledged that they would not be able to attend if they did not have proper travel documents.
Both men are subject to U.S. financial sanctions because of their positions in Zimbabwe's government, which is accused of numerous human rights abuses.
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