Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme...after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems... The credibility of the KPCS was on a knife edge before the annual meeting... "We [civil society] are very disappointed" with the outcome, [Annie Dunnebacke of Global Witness] told IRIN. Instead of suspension, an action plan to ensure Zimbabwe's compliance with the KPCS was called for, with the dispatch of an official to monitor the country's adherence... The action plan adopted in Swakopmund did not address human rights abuses or the militarization of the Marange alluvial diamond fields.