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the Transitional Administration through measures in accordance with the national
development budget published by the Transitional Administration;
12. Calls upon the international community to support the efforts of the
Transitional Administration to coordinate assistance, to formulate a strategy for the
long-term development of Afghanistan and to allocate sufficient funds to the
Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund;
13. Calls upon the signatories of the Kabul Declaration on Good-neighbourly
Relations2 to respect their commitments under the Declaration, and calls upon all
other States to respect and support the implementation of its provisions and to
promote regional stability;
14. Welcomes, in this regard, the signing of the Declaration on Encouraging
Closer Trade, Transit and Investment Cooperation as a further sign of the
commitment of Afghanistan and its neighbours to closer regional cooperation;
15. Calls upon the members of the Tripartite Commission to redouble their
efforts to support peace and security in the southern and south-eastern border areas
of Afghanistan;
16. Calls for continued international assistance to the vast number of Afghan
refugees and internally displaced persons to facilitate their safe and orderly return
and sustainable reintegration into society so as to contribute to the stability of the
entire country;
17. Welcomes the efforts of the Transitional Administration to respect fully
the international obligations of Afghanistan with regard to narcotic drugs, and calls
upon it to strengthen further its efforts to eliminate the annual poppy crop, as well as
to efficiently enforce relevant national laws and regulations against narcotic drugs;
18. Calls upon the international community to assist the Transitional
Administration in the implementation of its comprehensive national drug control
strategy, aimed at eliminating illicit poppy cultivation, which continues to constitute
a serious threat to the successful political and economic reconstruction of
Afghanistan, including through support for increased law enforcement, crop
substitution and other alternative livelihood and development programmes and
capacity-building for drug control institutions;
19. Supports the fight against the illicit trafficking of drugs and precursors
within Afghanistan and in neighbouring States and countries along trafficking
routes, including increased cooperation among them to strengthen anti-narcotic
controls to curb the drug flow, and welcomes the presentation in Moscow on
29 October 2003 of the latest report of the United Nations International Drug
Control Programme on drugs in Afghanistan;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly every
four months during its fifty-eighth session on the progress of the United Nations and
the efforts of his Special Representative to promote peace in Afghanistan, and to
report to the Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the progress made in the
implementation of the present resolution;
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