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31. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly every three months during its
fifty-fourth session on the progress of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan and to report to
the Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution;
32. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the item entitled “The situation
in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security”.
84th plenary meeting
17 December 1999
B
EMERGENCY INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PEACE, NORMALCY AND RECONSTRUCTION
OF WAR-STRICKEN AFGHANISTAN
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 50/88 A of 19 December 1995, 51/195 A of 17 December 1996, 52/211 A of
19 December 1997 and 53/203 B of 18 December 1998,
Expressing its grave concern about the continuation of the military confrontation in Afghanistan,
threatening regional peace and security and causing massive loss of life and extensive human suffering,
further destruction of property, serious damage to the economic and social infrastructure, refugee flows and
other forcible displacements of large numbers of people,
Noting with deep concern that the people of Afghanistan continue to suffer from a serious loss of their
human rights, which can be largely attributed to the effects of decades of warfare that continues to create a
worsening humanitarian crisis,
Remaining deeply concerned about the problem of millions of anti-personnel landmines and unexploded
ordnance as well as the continued laying of new anti-personnel landmines in Afghanistan, which continue
to prevent many Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons from returning to their villages and
working in their fields,
Deeply disturbed by the continuing security threat to United Nations personnel and other humanitarian
personnel, including locally engaged staff, and by various impediments to their access to affected
populations,
Expressing its grave concern at the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian
law, in particular by the Taliban, in Afghanistan and at the inadequacy of measures taken by the warring
factions to reverse the situation,
Deeply concerned by the continuing and substantiated reports of violations of human rights, in particular
of women and girls, including all forms of discrimination against them, notably in areas under the control
of the Taliban,