The situation in Afghanistan A/RES/70/77 Organization, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in promoting the development of Afghanistan; 87. Reaffirms support to the ongoing Afghan-led regional economic efforts within the framework of the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan process, welcomes the decade-long achievements of the process, anticipates closer linkages and complementarities between the prioritized projects of the sixth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan and th e Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, also reaffirms that coordinated regional economic development strategies should support the overall regional economic integration vision, and emphasizes shared ownership of the work towards comprehensive regional connectivity and its importance in promoting region-wide economic integration, confidence and prosperity; 88. Welcomes and urges further efforts to strengthen the process of regional economic cooperation, including measures to facilitate regional trade and transit , including through regional and bilateral transit trade agreements, expanded consular visa cooperation and facilitation of business travel, to expand trade, to increase foreign investments and to develop infrastructure, including infrastructural connectivity, energy supply, transport and integrated border management, with a view to promoting sustainable economic growth and the creation of jobs in Afghanistan, noting the historical role of Afghanistan as a land bridge in Asia, and welcomes in this regard the signing of an agreement by Afghanistan and Pakistan on electricity transit fees as an important step towards regional electricity trade between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan; Counter-narcotics 89. Welcomes the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan in fighting drug production in Afghanistan, welcomes and supports the adoption of the Afghan National Drug Action Plan 2015–2019, takes note of the report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime entitled “Afghanistan Opium Survey 2015”, released in October 2015, welcomes the recent decrease in production and cultivation of drugs as noted in the report, reiterates its deep concern about the cultivation and production of illicit narcotic drugs in Afghanistan, mainly concentrated in areas where the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other violent and extremist groups and criminals are particularly active, as well as the ongoing drug trafficking, stresses the need, based on the principle of common and shared responsibility, to further strengthen joint, more coordinated and resolute efforts by the Government, supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and by international and regional actors, within their designated responsibilities, to fight this menace, and encourages international and regional cooperation with Afghanistan in its sustained efforts to address drug production and trafficking; 90. Stresses the importance of a comprehensive and balanced approach in addressing the drug problem of Afghanistan, which, to be effective, must b e integrated into the wider context of efforts carried out in the areas of security, governance, the rule of law and human rights, and economic and social development, particularly in rural areas, calls upon the international community to continue to assist the Government of Afghanistan in implementing its National Drug Control Strategy 20 and its National Drug Action Plan; _______________ 20 S/2006/106, annex. 21/24