The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, meeting...cleared Zimbabwe to resume the supervised export of diamonds from its troubled Marange field...Sources said that under the new Kimberley deal, the United States might assume the group's deputy chairmanship...World Diamond Council President Eli Izhakoff [said] that the deal went a long way to healing rifts in the Kimberly Process over the Marange field...Zimbabwe Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said that Zimbabwe is committed to upholding Kimberley standards “in a way that has never been seen before." He said Harare is greatly relieved that it can legally sell its diamonds internationally...[N]on-governmental organizations which boycotted the Kinshasa meeting to protest what they said was a weak Kimberley stance on human rights in Marange were unhappy with the agreement. Research Director Allan Martin of Partnership Africa Canada said the deal shortchanges ordinary Zimbabweans and favors a small elite. [refers to Marange Resources (part of Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation), Mbada Diamonds (joint venture Reclam Group & Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation), Anjin Investments (joint venture Anhui Foreign Economic Construction & Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation)]