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stresses the importance of further progress in the implementation of these
initiatives;
87. Pays homage to all those who have innocently lost their lives in the fight
against drug traffickers, in particular members of the security forces of Afghanistan
and its neighbours;
88. Welcomes initiatives to promote border management cooperation in drug
control, including the financial dimension, between Afghanistan and its neighbours,
and emphasizes the importance of pursuing such cooperation, especially through
bilateral arrangements and those launched by the Collective Security Treaty
Organization;
89. Stresses the importance of further, effective cooperative support by
relevant international and regional actors, including the United Nations and the
International Security 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, and welcomes in this regard the regional programme on
Afghanistan and neighbouring countries of the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime;
90. Expresses its appreciation for the work of the Mission as mandated by
the Security Council in resolution 1868 (2009), and stresses the continued
importance of the central and impartial role played by the Mission in promoting and
coordinating a more coherent international engagement;
91. Welcomes the ongoing extension of the presence of the Mission into
additional provinces, which thus ensures that the United Nations fulfils its essential
coordinating role, and encourages the Mission to consolidate its presence and to
continue its expansion throughout the country, in particular in the south, security
conditions permitting;
92. Stresses the need to ensure that the Mission is adequately resourced to
fulfil its mandate;
93. Acknowledges the central role played by the Joint Coordination and
Monitoring Board in facilitating and monitoring the implementation of the
Afghanistan Compact, stresses that the role of the Board is to support Afghanistan
by, inter alia, coordinating international assistance and reconstruction programmes,
and welcomes further efforts to provide appropriate guidance and promote a more
coherent international engagement;
94. Commends the continuing efforts of the signatories of the Kabul
Declaration on Good-neighbourly Relations of 22 December 2002 16 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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95. 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;
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S/2002/1416, annex.