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89. Welcomes initiatives to enhance border management cooperation between
Afghanistan and its neighbours in ensuring comprehensive measures for drug
control, including the financial dimension, emphasizes the importance of pursuing
such cooperation, especially through bilateral arrangements and those launched by
the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and welcomes the intention of the
Government of Afghanistan to strengthen international and regional cooperation
with relevant partners in the field of border control;
90. Stresses the importance of further, effective cooperative support by
relevant international and regional actors, including the United Nations and the
Assistance Force, within its designated responsibilities, to Afghan-led sustained
efforts to address the threat posed by the illicit production of and trafficking in
drugs, welcomes in this regard the regional programme on Afghanistan and
neighbouring countries of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and
encourages the respective countries to continue to participate;
91. Expresses its appreciation for the work of the Assistance Mission as
mandated by the Security Council in its resolution 1917 (2010), and stresses the
continued importance of the central and impartial role played by the Assistance
Mission in promoting and coordinating a more coherent international engagement;
92. Welcomes the ongoing extension of the presence of the Assistance
Mission into additional provinces, which thus ensures that the United Nations fulfils
its essential coordinating role, and encourages the Assistance Mission to consolidate
its presence and to continue its expansion throughout the country, in particular in the
south, security conditions permitting;
93. Stresses the need to ensure that the Assistance Mission is adequately
resourced to fulfil its mandate;
94. Acknowledges the central role played by the Joint Coordination and
Monitoring Board, stresses that the role of the Board is to support Afghanistan by,
inter alia, monitoring and supporting the Kabul process and coordinating
international assistance and reconstruction programmes, and welcomes further
efforts to provide appropriate guidance and promote a more coherent international
engagement;
95. Commends the continuing efforts of the signatories of the Kabul
Declaration on Good-neighbourly Relations of 22 December 2002 14 to implement
their commitments under the Declaration, and furthermore calls upon all other
States to respect and support the implementation of those provisions and to promote
regional stability;
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96. Welcomes and encourages further efforts by the Government of
Afghanistan and its neighbouring partners to foster trust and cooperation with each
other, and looks forward, where appropriate, to increasing cooperation between
Afghanistan, all its neighbouring and regional partners, and regional organizations
against the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other extremist and criminal groups and in
promoting peace and prosperity in Afghanistan, in the region and beyond;
97. Welcomes the ongoing efforts by the Government of Afghanistan and its
neighbouring and regional partners to foster trust and cooperation with each other,
also welcomes in this regard the inclusive vision set out in the Istanbul Statement on
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