A/RES/59/112 A-B responsibilities, to continue to address the threat to the security and stability of Afghanistan posed by Al-Qaida operatives, the Taliban and other extremist groups, factional violence among militia forces and criminal violence, in particular violence involving the drug trade; Reiterates the importance of the implementation of the timetable of the 7. Joint Electoral Management Body for parliamentary and local elections scheduled for the spring of 2005; Calls upon the Assistance Mission to continue to provide the necessary 8. support to the Government of Afghanistan in order to facilitate timely and inclusive parliamentary and local elections; Calls upon the Assistance Mission and the Joint Electoral Management 9. Body to provide sufficient training to the election personnel as well as voter and civic education, with a particular focus on women, before parliamentary and local elections; 10. Calls upon the Joint Electoral Management Body, with the assistance of the Assistance Mission, to provide budgetary targets for the elections, and urges the donor community to consider making further commitments to meet those targets in time; 11. Calls upon regional organizations and Member States to contribute to the conduct of free and fair parliamentary elections by providing international election monitors; 12. Reiterates the important role of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and stresses the need to expand its range of operations in all parts of Afghanistan in accordance with the Afghan Constitution; 13. Calls for full respect for human rights and international humanitarian law throughout Afghanistan and, with the assistance of the Assistance Mission, full implementation of the human rights provisions of the new Afghan Constitution, including those regarding the full enjoyment by women of their human rights, and commends the commitment of the Government of Afghanistan in this respect; 14. Welcomes the efforts to date of the Afghan authorities to implement their comprehensive national drug control strategy adopted in May 2003, and urges the Government of Afghanistan to take decisive action, in particular to stop the processing of and trade in drugs, by pursuing the concrete steps set out in the work plan of the Government of Afghanistan, presented at the International Conference on Afghanistan, held in Berlin on 31 March and 1 April 2004;4 15. Calls upon the international community to assist the Government of Afghanistan in the implementation of its comprehensive national drug control strategy, aimed at eliminating illicit poppy cultivation, including through support for increased law enforcement, interdiction, demand reduction, eradication of illicit crops, crop substitution and other alternative livelihood and development programmes, increasing public awareness and building the capacity of drug control institutions; 16. Supports the fight against the illicit trafficking in 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 in this context the signing on 1 April 4