A/RES/70/77
The situation in Afghanistan
laid down in the Self-Reliance through Mutual Accountability Framework adopted
at the second Senior Officials Meeting of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring
Board of the Tokyo Mutual Accountability Framework, in Kabul on 5 September
2015, and looking forward to the next international conference on Afghanistan , in
Brussels in 2016,
Welcoming and supporting the outcomes of the high-level meeting on
Afghanistan’s peaceful development and regional cooperation, convened in
New York on 26 September 2015 by Afghanistan, China and the United States of
America on the margins of the seventieth session of the General Assembly,
Recognizing once again the interconnected nature of the challenges in
Afghanistan, reaffirming that sustainable progress on security, political stability,
governance, financial sustainability, human rights, the rule of law and development,
as well as on the cross-cutting issues of counter-narcotics, anti-corruption and
accountability, are mutually reinforcing and that governance and development
programmes prioritized for implementation in the transformation decade should be
consistent with the goals set forth in the Tokyo Declaration and with the reform
agenda of the Government of Afghanistan, commending the continuing efforts of the
Government of Afghanistan, and underlining the importance of the continuing
support of the international community for the National Unity Government of
Afghanistan to address these challenges,
Welcoming and supporting the outcome of the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in the Heart of Asia, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 November 2011, 3
which launched the Istanbul Process on Regional Security and Cooperation for a
Secure and Stable Afghanistan and the follow-up Heart of Asia Ministerial
Conferences, held in Kabul on 14 June 2012 and in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 26 April
2013, and the fourth Ministerial Conference, held in Beijing on 31 October 2014,
and the Beijing Declaration on Afghanistan, which furthered the Process whereby
Afghanistan and its regional partners, with the support of the international
community, affirmed their commitment to strengthen regional security and
cooperation for a secure and stable Afghanistan, including through enhanced
regional dialogue and confidence-building measures, and looking forward to the
fifth Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference, in Islamabad in December 2015,
Stressing the crucial importance of advancing regional cooperation as an
effective means of promoting security, stability and economic and social
development in Afghanistan, recognizing in this regard the importance of the
contribution of neighbouring and regional partners, as well as regional
organizations, recalling the importance of the Kabul Declaration on Good neighbourly Relations of 22 December 2002, 4 welcoming in this regard the
continued commitment of the international community to support stability and
development in Afghanistan, and noting international and regional initiatives, such
as those of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Central Asian Regional
Economic Cooperation Programme, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the
Collective Security Treaty Organization, the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation, the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan
process, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe,
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A/66/601-S/2011/767, annex.
S/2002/1416, annex.