Security Council adopts resolution on Afghanistan independent assessment

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — The Safety Council on Friday adopted a decision to encourage UN member states and different related stakeholders to think about the Afghanistan impartial evaluation and the implementation of its suggestions.

Decision 2721, which was adopted with 13 votes in favor and two abstentions (by China and Russia), takes optimistic be aware of the Afghanistan impartial evaluation submitted to the Safety Council on Nov. 8.

It encourages UN member states and all different related stakeholders to think about the impartial evaluation and the implementation of its suggestions, particularly rising worldwide engagement in a extra coherent, coordinated and structured method.

The decision affirms that the target of this course of must be a transparent finish state of an Afghanistan at peace with itself and its neighbors, totally reintegrated into the worldwide group and assembly worldwide obligations, and acknowledges the necessity to guarantee the complete, equal, significant and secure participation of Afghan girls within the course of all through.

It requests the UN secretary-general, in session with members of the Safety Council, related Afghan political actors and stakeholders, in addition to the area and the broader worldwide group, to nominate a particular envoy for Afghanistan to advertise the implementation of the suggestions of the impartial evaluation.

The Afghanistan impartial evaluation report proposes an “structure for engagement” to information and produce extra coherence to political, humanitarian and improvement actions, along with a substantive roadmap that may allow more practical negotiation and implementation of the priorities of Afghan and worldwide stakeholders.

The impartial evaluation report makes 4 suggestions: a sequence of measures that may be taken instantly and are geared toward addressing the essential wants of the Afghan folks and strengthening belief by way of a extra structured engagement; a name for worldwide consideration to and cooperation on points that have an effect on regional and world safety and stability; a roadmap for political engagement designed to reintegrate Afghanistan totally into the worldwide group; a set of mechanisms and codecs to make sure the coordination and implementation of the above-mentioned suggestions.