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80. Stresses the need to prevent trafficking in and diversion of chemical
precursors used in the illicit manufacturing of drugs, including heroin for illicit use,
in Afghanistan, and calls for the full implementation of Security Council resolution
1817 (2008) in this regard;
81. Urges the Government of Afghanistan, supported by the international
community, to work to mainstream counter-narcotics throughout all the national
programmes and to ensure that counter-narcotics is a fundamental part of the
comprehensive approach, as well as to increase its efforts against opium cultivation
and drug trafficking in accordance with the balanced eight-pillar plan of the Afghan
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82. Commends the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan in this regard,
as well as the efforts to implement the National Drug Control Strategy, including the
Prioritized Implementation Plan, urges the Government and the international
community to take decisive action, in particular to stop the processing of and trade
in drugs, by pursuing the concrete steps set out in the Strategy and in the
Afghanistan Compact and through initiatives such as the Good Performers Initiative
established to provide incentives for governors to reduce cultivation in their
provinces, and encourages the Afghan authorities to work at the provincial level on
elaborating counter-narcotics implementation plans;
83. Calls upon the international community to assist the Government of
Afghanistan in implementing its National Drug Control Strategy, aimed at
eliminating the cultivation, production and consumption of and trafficking in illicit
drugs, including through increased support for Afghan law enforcement and
criminal justice agencies, agricultural and rural development, demand reduction, the
elimination of illicit crops, increased public awareness, the building of the capacity
of drug control institutions and care and treatment centres for drug addicts and the
creation of alternative livelihoods for farmers, and reiterates its call upon the
international community to channel counter-narcotics funding through the
Government to the extent possible;
84. Urges the Government of Afghanistan, assisted by the international
community, to promote the development of sustainable livelihoods in the formal
production sector, as well as in other sectors, and to improve access to reasonable
and sustainable credit and financing in rural areas, thus improving substantially the
lives, health and security of the people, particularly in rural areas;
85. Supports the fight against the illicit trafficking in drugs from and
precursors to Afghanistan and neighbouring States and countries along trafficking
routes, including increased cooperation among them in strengthening anti-narcotic
controls and the monitoring of the international trade in chemical precursors, and
takes note of the establishment of the Central Asian Regional Information and
Coordination Centre in Almaty on 22 March 2009;
86. Calls upon States to strengthen international and regional cooperation to
counter the increasing threat to the international community posed by the illicit
production of drugs in Afghanistan and trafficking in drugs, recognizes the progress
achieved by relevant initiatives within the framework of the Paris Pact, the Tehran
agreement on a triangular initiative by Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and
Pakistan and the third Trilateral Summit of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, and
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