 Resolution 55/56, being the document adopted by the general assembly in 2000 aimed at breaking the link between the transaction of illicit diamonds and armed conflict.The bill however, faced opposition from the Bush administration, which did not want to create additional trade restrictions, and it did not pass.Following the failure of the Clean Diamonds Act, NGO’s used advertising and public demonstrations to link diamonds to the extreme violence in Sierra Leone and other diamond mining countries in order to appeal to ethical consumerism.