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7.
Urges all the Afghan parties to work closely with the United
Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan with a view to achieving a
comprehensive political solution leading to the eventual establishment of a
democratic Government elected through free and fair elections based on the
right to self-determination of the peoples of Afghanistan;
8.
Demands that all Afghan parties fulfil their obligations and
commitments regarding the safety of United Nations personnel and other
international personnel as well as their premises in Afghanistan and cooperate
fully with the United Nations and associated bodies as well as with other
humanitarian organizations and agencies;
9.
Strongly urges all parties to the conflict to take all necessary
measures to ensure the safety of all personnel of humanitarian organizations
and representatives of the media in Afghanistan;
10.
Endorses the Special Rapporteur's condemnation of the abduction
from United Nations premises of the former President of Afghanistan,
Mr. Najibullah, and of his brother, and of their subsequent summary execution;
11.
Urges the Afghan authorities to provide efficient and effective
remedies to the victims of grave violations of human rights and of accepted
humanitarian rules and to bring their perpetrators to trial in accordance with
internationally accepted standards;
12.
Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization to entrust the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the
Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in
Case of Illicit Appropriation with the mandate, upon the invitation and with
the cooperation of the Afghan authorities, of examining ways and means to
restore the Kabul Museum, including through the tracing of the country's
stolen articles, to propose measures aimed at preventing the illicit import,
export and transfer of ownership of artefacts belonging to the Kabul Museum
and to report thereon to the Executive Board of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
13.
Appeals to Member States and to the international community to
provide adequate humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan and to
the Afghan refugees in the neighbouring countries, pending, and with a view to
encouraging, their voluntary repatriation;
14.
Urges the authorities in Afghanistan to continue to extend their
cooperation to the Commission on Human Rights and to its Special Rapporteur;
15.
Requests the Secretary-General to give all necessary assistance to
the Special Rapporteur;
16.
Decides to keep the situation of human rights in Afghanistan under
consideration at its fifty-second session, in the light of additional elements
provided by the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social
Council.
82nd plenary meeting
12 December 1996