A/RES/57/113 A-B all Member States to provide humanitarian assistance and to support the Transitional Authority, including through the provision of direct budgetary support as well as through long-term assistance for the economic and social reconstruction and rehabilitation of Afghanistan, especially in the provinces, based on the Immediate and Transitional Assistance Programme for the Afghan People 2002; 9. Calls for continued international assistance to the vast number of Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons to facilitate their safe and orderly return and sustainable reintegration into society so as to contribute to the stability of the entire country; 10. Welcomes the efforts of the Transitional Authority to respect fully the international obligations of Afghanistan with regard to narcotic drugs, and calls upon it to strengthen further its efforts to eradicate the annual poppy crop; 11. Calls upon the international community to assist the Transitional Authority in the development and implementation of comprehensive, coordinated programmes aimed at eliminating illicit poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, including through crop substitution programmes and capacity-building for drug control; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly every four months during its fifty-seventh session on the progress of the United Nations and the efforts of his Special Representative to promote peace in Afghanistan, and to report to the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution; 13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security”. 68th plenary meeting 6 December 2002 B E MERGENCY INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PEACE, NORMALCY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF WAR - STRICKEN A FGHANISTAN The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 56/220 B of 21 December 2001 and all other relevant resolutions, Recalling the agreement reached among various Afghan groups in Bonn, Germany, on 5 December 20012 and the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan, held in Tokyo on 21 and 22 January 2002, Welcoming the recent initiative of the President of the General Assembly to hold a panel discussion on Afghanistan, 1 Expressing its grave concern about the continuing effects of decades of conflict in Afghanistan, which has caused massive loss of life, extensive human suffering, destruction of property, serious damage to the economic and social infrastructure, refugee flows and other forcible displacements of large numbers of people, Mindful that Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to natural disasters and that some parts of its territory continue to be affected by serious drought, 4