 On 28 November 2000, in Gaborone, Botswana, negotiators for dozens of diamond exporting and importing countries ended over a year of negotiations and agreed on the elements of an international certification program, which would become the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, adopted by the UN at their 79th plenary meeting on 1 December.The "Washington Times" wrote, "If the White House fails to immediately shore up the legislation, blood diamonds will symbolize Mr. Clinton's stained legacy in Africa"; especially because, as "the world's largest diamond jewelry market", the United States had more of a responsibility to take initiative in supporting the KPCS and in the CDTA legislation.Without US support, the rest of the world had much less incentive to join the program.