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financial support and provision of trainers and mentors, including the contribution
of the NATO Resolute Support Mission, as agreed to and accepted by the
Government of Afghanistan the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) contribution to
this mission and the European Union through its police mission (EUPOL
Afghanistan), as well as the German Police Project Team (GPPT), noting the
importance of a sufficient and capable police force for Afghanistan’s long -term
security, welcomes the ten-year vision for the Ministry of Interior and Afghan
National Police, including the commitment to develop an effective strategy for
coordinating increased recruitment, retention, training, and capacity development
for women in the Afghan National Police, as well as furthering the implementation
of their gender integration strategy, and welcomes UNAMA’s continued support for
women police associations;
27. Welcomes the progress in the implementation by the Afghan Government
of the programme of disbandment of illegal armed groups and its integration with
the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme, and calls for accelerated and
harmonized efforts for further progress, with support from the international
community;
28. Condemns in the strongest terms all attacks, including improvised
explosive device attacks, suicide attacks, assassinations and abductions, targeting
civilians and Afghan and international forces and their deleterious effect on the
stabilization, reconstruction and development efforts in Afghanistan, and condemns
further the use by the Taliban and other extremist groups of civilians as human
shields;
29. Notes with concern the continued high incidence of attacks against
humanitarian and development workers, including attacks on health-care workers,
and medical transports and facilities, condemns these attacks in the strongest terms,
emphasizing that the attacks impede efforts to aid the people of Afghanistan, and
calls on all parties to ensure full, safe and unhindered access of all humanitarian
actors, including United Nations staff and associated personnel, and comply fully
with applicable international humanitarian law, and to respect the United Nations
guiding principles of emergency humanitarian assistance;
30. Welcomes the achievements to date in the implementation of the Mine
Action Programme of Afghanistan, and encourages the Government of Afghanistan,
with the support of the United Nations and all the relevant actors, to continue its
efforts towards the removal and destruction of anti-personnel landmines, anti-tank
landmines and explosive remnants of war in order to reduce the threats posed to
human life and peace and security in the country, and expresses the need to provide
assistance for the care, rehabilitation, and economic and social reintegration of
victims, including persons with disabilities;
31. Expresses its strong concern about the recruitment and use of children by
the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other violent and extremist groups in Afghanistan as well
as the killing and maiming of children as a result of the conflict, reiterates its strong
condemnation of the recruitment and use of child soldiers in violation of applicable
international law and all other violations and abuses committed against c hildren in
situations of armed conflict, in particular those involving attacks against schools,
education and health-care facilities, including the burning and forced closure of
schools, and the intimidation, abduction and killing of education personnel,
particularly those attacks targeting girls’ education by illegal armed groups,
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