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of and trade in drugs, by pursuing the concrete steps set out in the Strategy and in
the Afghanistan Compact and through initiatives such as the Good Performers
Initiative established to provide incentives for governors to reduce cultivation in
their provinces;
47. Calls upon the international community to assist the Government of
Afghanistan in carrying out its National Drug Control Strategy, aimed at eliminating
the cultivation, production, trafficking in and consumption of illicit drugs, including
through increased support for Afghan law enforcement and criminal justice
agencies, agricultural and rural development, demand reduction, the elimination of
illicit crops, increasing public awareness, building the capacity of drug control
institutions and creating alternative livelihoods for farmers;
48. Encourages the international community to increasingly channel counternarcotics funding through the Government of Afghanistan’s Counter-Narcotics Trust
Fund;
49. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to promote the development of
sustainable livelihoods in the formal production sector as well as other sectors, and
to improve access to reasonable and sustainable credit and financing in rural areas,
thus improving substantially the lives, health and security of the people, particularly
in rural areas;
50. Supports the fight against the illicit trafficking in drugs and precursors
within Afghanistan and in neighbouring States and countries along trafficking
routes, including increased cooperation among them to strengthen anti-narcotic
controls to curb the drug flow;
51. Recalls the outcome of the Second Ministerial Conference on Drug
Trafficking Routes from Afghanistan, organized by the Government of the Russian
Federation in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, held
in Moscow from 26 to 28 June 2006, 14 within the framework of the Paris Pact
initiative, and therefore calls upon States to strengthen international and regional
cooperation to counter the increasing threat to the international community posed by
the illicit production of and trafficking in drugs;
52. Welcomes recent initiatives to promote border management cooperation
in drug control between Afghanistan and its neighbours;
53. Stresses the central and impartial role of the United Nations in promoting
peace and stability in Afghanistan by leading the efforts of the international
community, and endorses the key principles for cooperation between the
Government of Afghanistan and the international community as referred to in the
Afghanistan Compact;
54. Acknowledges the central role played by the Joint Coordination and
Monitoring Board in facilitating and monitoring the implementation of the
Afghanistan Compact, stresses the role of the Board to support Afghanistan by, inter
alia, coordinating international assistance and reconstruction programmes, and
welcomes further efforts to provide appropriate high-level political guidance and
promote a more coherent international engagement;
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See A/61/208-S/2006/598, annex.
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