A/RES/65/8 40. Commends the Government of Afghanistan for the holding of the Afghan national Consultative Peace Jirga in Kabul from 2 to 4 June 2010, expresses its support for an Government of Afghanistan-led process of peace and reconciliation as recommended by the Jirga, calls upon the Government to renew and fully implement the Action Plan on Peace, Justice and Reconciliation, supports the Afghan Peace and Reintegration Programme, which is open to those who are willing to reintegrate into their communities, renounce violence, have no links to terrorist organizations, respect the Afghan Constitution and are willing to join the mainstream in building a stable, secure, peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan, expresses its support for calls upon those concerned to meet these conditions and reconcile and reintegrate, without prejudice to the implementation of measures and application of procedures introduced by the Security Council in its resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1904 (2009), and recalls other relevant resolutions in this regard; 41. Calls upon the Government of Afghanistan to ensure that the Afghan Peace and Reintegration Programme is implemented in an inclusive manner consistent with the Afghan Constitution and the international legal obligations of Afghanistan, while upholding the human rights of all Afghans and countering impunity, notes with appreciation the establishment of the High Peace Council, welcomes the establishment of the Peace and Reintegration Trust Fund, recalls the respective commitments made at the London and Kabul Conferences, and stresses the importance of continued contributions by the international community to the Trust Fund; 42. Recalls Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 1820 (2008) of 19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009 and 1889 (2009) of 5 October 2009 on women and peace and security, commends the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan to mainstream gender issues, including into the national priority programmes, and to protect and promote the equal rights of women and men as guaranteed, inter alia, by virtue of its ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 7 and by the Afghan Constitution and the implementation of the National Action Plan for Women, reiterates the continued importance of the full and equal participation of women in all spheres of Afghan life, and of equality before the law and equal access to legal counsel without discrimination of any kind, and stresses the need for continued progress on gender issues in accordance with the obligations of Afghanistan under international law; 6F 43. Reiterates, in view of legislation previously adopted, the continued importance of upholding international obligations for the advancement of women’s rights as enshrined in the Afghan Constitution, and welcomes the commitment of the Government of Afghanistan to implement the law on the elimination of violence against women, including services for victims, and to submit its report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2010; 44. Strongly condemns incidents of discrimination and violence against women and girls, in particular if directed against women activists and women prominent in public life, wherever they occur in Afghanistan, including killings, maimings and “honour killings” in certain parts of the country; 45. Reiterates its appreciation for the Elimination of Violence against Women Special Fund of the United Nations Development Fund for Women as well _______________ 7 8 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.