A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/211 27 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda items 20 (c) and 43 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.68 and Add.1)] 52/211. Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan and the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security A Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 47/119 of 18 December 1992, 48/208 of 21 December 1993, 49/140 of 20 December 1994, 50/88 A of 19 December 1995 and 51/195 A of 17 December 1996 concerning emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan, Concerned about the continuation of the military confrontation in Afghanistan, threatening regional peace and stability, and the significant increase of internally displaced persons and interruptions in the process of repatriating refugees, Deeply concerned about the massive loss of human life, the aggravated suffering of the most vulnerable groups, the destruction of property and the serious damage to the economic and social infrastructure of Afghanistan caused by eighteen years of war, and underlining the close interrelationship between ensuring peace and normalcy in Afghanistan and the ability of the country to take effective steps towards sustainable economic and social development, bearing in mind that the country continues to suffer from an extremely critical economic situation as a landlocked, least developed and war-stricken country, Concerned for the well-being of the unarmed civilian population of Afghanistan, who face a long winter possibly deprived of basic foods, owing, inter alia, to the looting of United Nations premises and food supplies and to deliberate restrictions placed on the access of humanitarian organizations to some parts of the country and on other humanitarian operations, 98-76975 /...