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participation of the Assistance Force, and calls upon the international community to
support those efforts;
46. Invites all States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations
providing assistance to Afghanistan to focus on institution-building in a coordinated
manner and to ensure that such work complements and contributes to the
development of an economy characterized by sound macroeconomic policies, the
development of a financial sector that provides services, inter alia, to
microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and households, transparent
business regulations and accountability;
47. Encourages the international community, including all donor nations, to
assist the Government of Afghanistan in making capacity-building and human
resources development a cross-cutting priority;
48. Urges the international community, in accordance with the Afghanistan
Compact, to increase the proportion of donor assistance channelled directly to the
core budget, as agreed bilaterally between the Government of Afghanistan and each
donor, as well as through other more predictable core budget funding modalities in
which the Government participates, such as the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust
Fund, the Law and Order Trust Fund and the Counter-Narcotics Trust Fund;
49. Urgently appeals to all States, the United Nations system and international
and non-governmental organizations to continue to provide, in close coordination
with the Government of Afghanistan and in accordance with its national development
strategy, all possible and necessary humanitarian, recovery, reconstruction, financial,
technical and material assistance for Afghanistan;
50. Emphasizes the need to maintain, strengthen and review civil-military
relations among international actors, as appropriate, at all levels in order to ensure
complementarity of action based on the different mandates and comparative
advantages of the humanitarian, development, law enforcement and military actors
present in Afghanistan, bearing in mind the central and impartial coordinating role
of the United Nations;
51. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly every
six months during its sixty-first session on developments in Afghanistan, as well as
on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution;
52. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session
the item entitled “The situation in Afghanistan”.
58th plenary meeting
28 November 2006
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