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to improve the respect for the rule of law and human rights therein, while reducing
physical and mental health risks to inmates;
16. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to meet its responsibilities under
the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 11 to cooperate fully with the
mine action programme coordinated by the United Nations, and to execute the
destruction of all existing stocks of anti-personnel landmines;
17. Welcomes the generous commitments made in Berlin at the International
Conference on Afghanistan, and urges donors to follow through on their pledges;
18. Urges the international community to channel assistance through the
national budget, including by contributing to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust
Fund and the Law and Order Trust Fund, which are not adequately funded, and to
generously support the national priority programmes of the Government of
Afghanistan in order to strengthen ownership, transparency and the functioning of
basic State institutions;
19. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to continue to effectively reform
the public administration sector and to ensure good governance, the rule of law and
accountability at all levels, both national and local;
20. Welcomes the initiative taken by the Government of Afghanistan in
setting out priorities and development programmes and in national development,
reconstruction and regional integration, and calls upon the international community
to support Afghanistan in this regard;
21. 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, financial,
technical and material assistance for Afghanistan;
22. Emphasizes the need to establish, maintain and strengthen 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 humanitarian, development, law enforcement and military actors in
Afghanistan;
23. Invites all States and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations providing assistance to Afghanistan to emphasize capacity-building,
institution-building and local employment generation in their work 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, accountability, good
governance and the rule of law;
24. Requests that existing capacity-building programmes and projects be
sufficiently funded in order to strengthen, inter alia, the capacity of Afghanistan to
respond to natural disasters, in particular long-term drought;
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