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including the Taliban, and noting, in this context, the listing of the Taliban in the
annex of the report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict
(S/2014/339), and the use of children in suicide attacks, and calls for those
responsible to be brought to justice;
32. In this context, stresses the importance of implementing Security Council
resolution 1612 (2005) on children and armed conflict and subsequent resolutions,
supports the decree by the Minister of the Interior reaffirming the Afghan
Government’s commitment to preventing violations of the rights of the child dated
6 July 2011, welcomes the progress made on the implementation of the Action Plan,
and its annex, on children associated with the ANDSF, signed in January 2011, in
particular the establishment of the Afghan Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee on
Children and Armed Conflict, the appointment of a focal p oint on child protection,
the recent adoption of a new law prohibiting recruitment of children into military
units and criminalizing any underage recruitment and the endorsement by the
Afghan Government of a roadmap to accelerate compliance with the Action Plan,
and calls for the full implementation of the provisions of the plan, in close
cooperation with UNAMA, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to give
priority to the child protection activities and capacity of UNAMA and continue to
include in his future reports the matter of children and armed conflict in the country
in line with the relevant Security Council resolutions;
33. Remains concerned at the serious harm that opium cultivation,
production and trafficking and consumption continue to cause to the security,
development and governance of Afghanistan as well as to the region and
internationally, takes note of the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014 released
in November 2014, calls on the Afghan Government, with the assistance of the
international community, to accelerate the implementation of the National Drug
Control Strategy, including through alternative livelihood programmes, and to
mainstream counter-narcotics throughout national programmes, encourages
additional international support for the four priorities identified in that Strategy, and
commends the support provided by the UNODC to the Triangular Initiative and the
Central Asian Regional Coordination and Information Centre (CARICC) within the
framework of the Paris Pact Initiative and the Rainbow Strategy and the UNODC
regional programme for Afghanistan and neighbouring countries, as well as the
contribution of the Domodedovo Police Academy of Russia;
34. Welcomes the continued efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime in empowering the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics -led
implementation of the Afghan National Drug Control Strategy, including through
the JCMB’s Counter Narcotics Monitoring Mechanism;
35. Calls upon States to strengthen international and regional cooperation to
counter the threat to the international community posed by the production,
trafficking, and consumption of illicit drugs originating in Afghanistan, with a view
to its progressive elimination, in accordance with the principle of common and
shared responsibility in addressing the drug problem of Afghanistan, including
through strengthening the law enforcement capacity and cooperation against the
trafficking in illicit drugs and precursor chemicals and money-laundering and
corruption linked to such trafficking, and calls for full implementation of its
resolution 1817 (2008);
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