A/RES/73/88
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 40
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.44 and A/73/L.44/Add.1)]
73/88.
The situation in Afghanistan
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 72/10 of 21 November 2017 and all its previous relevant
resolutions,
Recalling also all relevant Security Council resolutions and statements by the
President of the Council on the situation in Afghanistan, in particular resolutions
2189 (2014) of 12 December 2014, 2210 (2015) of 16 March 2015, 2274 (2016) of
15 March 2016, 2344 (2017) of 17 March 2017 and 2405 (2018) of 8 March 2018,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial
integrity and national unity of Afghanistan, and respecting its multicultural,
multi-ethnic and historical heritage,
Welcoming the efforts by Afghanistan in the framework of the Transformation
Decade (2015–2024) to consolidate its sovereignty through strengthening a fully
functioning, sustainable State in the service of its people, with the goal of becom ing
fully self-reliant,
Reaffirming the long-term partnership between the Government of Afghanistan
and the international community based on their renewed mutual commitments, as laid
down in the Geneva Mutual Accountability Framework, as agreed upon at t he Geneva
Conference on Afghanistan held on 27 and 28 November 2018, and recalling the longterm commitment of the international community to Afghanistan, reaffirmed at the
Geneva Conference, with the aim of continuing to strengthen national ownership and
leadership, taking into account the evolving nature of the presence of the international
community,
Reaffirming also the commitment of the international community to continuing
to support the training, equipping, financing and development of the capacity of the
Afghan National Defence and Security Forces, including as agreed in the Chicago
Summit Declaration on Afghanistan in 2012 and in the Wales, Warsaw and Brussels
Summit Declarations on Afghanistan, and honouring the memory of the men and
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