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with their focus on economic growth, revenue generation, job creation, governance
and human development contained therein, and underlines the need for the
continued and sequenced implementation of the national priority programmes;
Takes note with appreciation of the ideas outlined by the Government of
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Afghanistan in its strategy document entitled “Towards self-reliance: strategic
vision for the transformation decade”; 7
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Welcomes further efforts made by the Government of Afghanistan to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and acknowledges to that effect the
important work being done through the interministerial coordination mechanism and
its role in prioritizing and implementing the National Development Strategy and the
national priority programmes;
Encourages all partners to support constructively the Kabul process,
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building upon a deep and broad international partnership towards further increased
Afghan responsibility and ownership in security, governance and development,
aiming at a secure, prosperous and democratic Afghanistan, focusing on
strengthening the constitutional checks and balances that guarantee citizens’ rights
and obligations and implementing structural reform to enable an accountable and
effective Government to deliver concrete progress to its people;
Supports the continuing and growing ownership of reconstruction and
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development efforts by the Government of Afghanistan, and emphasizes the crucial
need to achieve ownership and accountability in all fields of governance and to
improve institutional capabilities, including at the subnational level, in order to use
aid more effectively;
Security and transition
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Reiterates once again its serious concern about the security situation in
Afghanistan, stresses the need to continue to address the threat to the security and
stability of Afghanistan caused by the ongoing violent and terrorist activity by the
Taliban, Al-Qaida and other violent and extremist groups and other illegal armed
groups and criminals, including those involved in the narcotics trade, and reiterates
in this regard its call for the full implementation of measures and the application of
procedures introduced in relevant Security Council resolutions, in particular
resolutions 1267 (1999), 1988 (2011) and 1989 (2011);
10. Condemns in the strongest terms all acts of violence and intimidation and
attacks, including improvised explosive device attacks, suicide attacks,
assassinations, including of public figures, abductions, the indiscriminate targeting of
civilians, attacks against humanitarian workers and the targeting of Afghan and
international forces, and their deleterious effect on the stabilization and development
efforts in Afghanistan, and also condemns the use, by the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other
violent and extremist groups and illegal armed groups, of civilians as human
shields;
11. Stresses the need for the Government of Afghanistan and the
international community to continue to work closely together in countering these
acts, which are threatening peace and stability in Afghanistan and the democratic
process, the achievements and continued implementation of the Afghanistan
development process as well as humanitarian aid measures, and calls upon all
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See S/2012/533.
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