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supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 13 and stresses the importance of considering becoming a party to the
Protocol;
28. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to continue to effectively reform
the public administration sector in order to implement the rule of law and to ensure
good governance and accountability at both national and local levels, and stresses
the importance of meeting the respective benchmarks of the Afghanistan Compact,
with the support of the international community;
29. Welcomes the formal establishment of the Senior Appointments Panel
and the finalization of the revised Public Administration Reform framework, and
encourages the Government of Afghanistan to ensure appointment of officials as
required by the Afghanistan Compact;
30. Encourages the international community, including all donor nations, to
assist the Government of Afghanistan in making capacity-building and human
resources development a cross-cutting priority;
31. Encourages the Government of Afghanistan to vigorously pursue its
efforts to establish a more effective, accountable and transparent administration at
national, provincial and local levels of Government leading the fight against
corruption in accordance with the Afghanistan Compact, and notes with concern the
effects of corruption with regard to security, good governance, combating the
narcotics industry and economic development;
32. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to address, with the assistance of
the international community, the question of claims for land property through a
comprehensive land titling programme, including formal registration of all property
and improved security of property rights, and welcomes the steps already taken by
the Government in this regard;
33. Notes the progress achieved in the elaboration of the Afghanistan
National Development Strategy,5 underlines the need to finalize the Strategy by
early 2008, and urges the international community actively to support this process;
34. Urgently appeals to all States, the United Nations system and
international and non-governmental organizations to continue to provide, in close
coordination with the Government of Afghanistan and in accordance with its
national development strategy, all possible and necessary humanitarian, recovery,
reconstruction, financial, technical and material assistance for Afghanistan;
35. Urges the international community, in accordance with the Afghanistan
Compact, to increase the proportion of donor assistance channelled directly to the
core budget, as agreed bilaterally between the Government of Afghanistan and each
donor, as well as through other more predictable core budget funding modalities in
which the Government participates, such as the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust
Fund, the Law and Order Trust Fund and the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund;
36. Invites all States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations
providing assistance to Afghanistan to focus on institution-building in a coordinated
manner and to ensure that such work complements and contributes to the
development of an economy characterized by sound macroeconomic policies, the
development of a financial sector that provides services, inter alia, to
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