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ammunition, military equipment, training or any other military support to all parties
to the conflict in Afghanistan;
10. Calls upon all States to take resolute measures to prohibit their military
personnel from planning and participating in combat operations in Afghanistan and
immediately to withdraw their personnel, and to assure that the supply of
ammunition and other war-making materials is halted;
11. Supports the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan with a view
to assuring its primary role in United Nations peacemaking activities in Afghanistan,
especially by the resumption of a dialogue between the Afghan parties through a
negotiating process based on a comprehensive agenda to be agreed by the two sides
that addresses the core problems of the Afghan situation and leads to a durable
ceasefire and the formation of a broad-based, multi-ethnic and fully representative
government;
12. Also supports the continuing cooperation of the Special Mission with all
countries that are willing to help find a peaceful solution to the Afghan conflict, in
particular with the members of the “six plus two” group, while continuing to
monitor closely and to encourage the various peace initiatives of non-warring
Afghan parties and personalities;
13. Welcomes the deployment of the Civil Affairs Unit of the Special Mission
to Faizabad, Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e Sharif and its ongoing
dialogue on political and human rights issues with high-ranking representatives of
the local and regional authorities of both Afghan sides, and supports the intention of
the Secretary-General to strengthen the political capacity of the Special Mission and
increase the number of military advisers from two to four;
14. Supports the activities of groups of interested States to coordinate their
efforts as well as the activities of international organizations, in particular the
Organization of the Islamic Conference, and encourages these organizations and
States, in particular the “six plus two” group, to use their influence in a constructive
manner in support of and in close coordination with the United Nations to promote
peace in Afghanistan;
15. Encourages the international community to support the Afghan people in
their right to express themselves on their main needs and their future through
democratic or traditional means by developing a framework for institution and
capacity-building that could lead to the eventual structure for a broad-based
government;
16. Calls upon all signatories to the Tashkent Declaration on Fundamental
Principles for a Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict in Afghanistan 3 and the Afghan
parties to implement the principles contained in that Declaration in support of the
efforts of the United Nations towards a peaceful resolution of the Afghan conflict, in
particular the agreement not to provide military support to any Afghan party and to
prevent the use of their territories for such purposes, and recalls their appeal to the
international community to take identical measures to prevent the delivery of
weapons to Afghanistan;
17. Strongly condemns the armed attacks on and the killing of United Nations
and other humanitarian personnel, strongly calls upon the Taliban to fulfil their
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