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  1. “I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.”

    2015-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7526 (2015) · source

  2. “Furthermore, in the context of an Afghan settlement, we consider it important to take fuller advantage of the potential and practical experience of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which since 2003 has been carrying out Operation Channel, aimed at suppressing drug smuggling routes, with the additional participation of the CSTO member States and counter-narcotics officers from agencies in Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, the United States of America and a number of other countries. Furthermore, a test of the operational readiness of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Force to carry out counter-terrorist operations was conducted in May in Tajikistan and demonstrated the capacity of the armed forces of CSTO member States to combat attacks by fighters from terrorist and extremist groups.”

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  3. “The situation is exacerbated by the fact that ISIL's leadership is attempting to seize control of Afghan drug trafficking in order to gain access to new sources offinancing for its terrorist activities. There is evidence that ISIL fighters already control part of the illegal supply channels of drug shipments from Badakhshan province. In that regard, we believe that the Security Council must continue to carefully monitor and promptly respond to developments in the drug situation in Afghanistan. We would like to take the opportunity provided by the presence in the Chamber of the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at Vienna, Mr. Yuri Fedotov, to express our support for the consistent efforts of the Office he leads in assisting Afghanistan to find an appropriate response to the problems posed by narcotics.”

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  4. “According to forecasts by international experts, this year it will increase to 7,800 tons. One reason for that situation is the emergence of new, improved opium poppy strains, potentially making possible three harvests per year. The level of eradication of opium poppy cultivation remains low. In that respect, 2014 was an especially poor year. According to the 2015 Afghanistan Opium Survey, the number of drug users in Afghanistan has nearly doubled since 2012, to over 3 million individuals. Over 1 million of them are children under the age of 15. United Nations experts believe that, following the withdrawal from Afghanistan of the main groups of the international coalition forces, the volume of Afghan drugs being trafficked along the northern route through Central Asia has increased.”

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  5. “The merging of criminal activities related to Afghan opiates with international terrorism continues, thereby strengthening the financial position of those actors through drug revenues. Russia looks forward to a comprehensive discussion on the Afghan drug issue within the broader format of the upcoming special session of the General Assembly devoted to narcotics throughout the world in 2016. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's World Drug Report, Afghanistan remains the world leader in opium cultivation and production, accounting for 85 per cent of the total global volume. The total area under opium poppy cultivation in 2014 increased to 224,000 hectares. Opium production grows by more than 1,000 tons annually. Whereas in 5,500 tonnes were produced in 2013, the production in 2014 was 6,400 tons.”

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  6. “We are convinced that regional efforts to assist Afghanistan should be promoted mainly through tried and tested platforms, first and foremost the Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO), into which we have incorporated virtually every country of the region, including Afghanistan, as member States, observers or dialogue partners. Russia welcomes Afghanistan's official request for SCO membership, which was submitted by the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, during his meeting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on the margins of the SCO summit in Ufa. Following the withdrawal of ISAF contingents, the problem of drugs - the illicit production and trafficking of which further destabilizes an already difficult situation both in the country and in the region in general - has deteriorated.”

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  7. “Afghan security forces have suffered significant losses in fighting the opposition and have shown themselves, to date, to be incapable of independently holding off attacks - as was demonstrated by the renewed participation of United States military forces in combat operations in the south of the country. We note the world's growing understanding regarding the importance of a regional context for an Afghan settlement, as well as an increase in the number of regional formats and platforms focused on Afghanistan. At the same time, we believe that it is important for countries in the region to play the primary role in carrying out activities according to those formats, especially as laid out by the Istanbul Process.”

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  8. “We View the current NATO Resolute Support Mission as a direct successor to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which failed, unfortunately, over its 12 years of existence, to resolve a single one of the issues that it tried to deal with. It is our view that NATO's efforts in Afghanistan should be aimed at strengthening the national security sector and that NATO's leadership - pursuant to resolution 2189 (2014) - should continue to report its mission's activity to the Security Council at meetings on the situation in Afghanistan. At the same time, we are forced to note that the new NATO mission has, at this stage, also not been able to achieve its objectives.”

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  9. “Russia stands ready to forge constructive cooperation with the new leadership of Afghanistan in order to maintain the stability and independent policy course of the country as one that is free from terrorism and drug trafficking. We will continue to assist Kabul in the training of Afghan security forces through the relevant Russian authorities. Russia will continue that work bilaterally and in cooperation with international partners - despite the changed approaches taken by the United States, NATO and a number of Western countries regarding the implementation of joint projects with Russia to assist Afghanistan.”

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  10. “Russia supports the policy of the Government of Afghanistan in implementing the concept of national reconciliation. We stand ready to assist in advancing the peace process, which includes a flexible approach to issues entailing a possible easing of sanctions established under resolution 1988 (2011) against the Taliban - if such an approach does not contradict Afghan national interests and adheres to the three well- known tenets of national reconciliation. We hope that, after having almost completed the process of forming a new Cabinet, the leadership of Afghanistan will finally be able to tackle the problems that have accumulated in the country.”

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  11. “In addition to the presence of Taliban forces in the provinces of Faryab and J owzj an -provinces bordering Turkmenistan - Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) groups remain active. There are reasons to expect a strengthening of ISIL, whose ranks currently number approximately 6,000 members and which has a presence in 25 of the 34 provinces of the country. Members include the Afghan Taliban and foreign fighters - which include Arabs, Punjabi Pakistanis, Waziristanis, Pashtuns, Chechens, Uzbeks and Tajiks. According to the Afghan intelligence services, over the past several months ISIL has established more than 10 training camps in order to prepare fighters throughout the country, and three of those camps are in the north.”

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  12. “In such circumstances, the prospects for a political settlement in Afghanistan, which seemed possible this past spring and summer, have become even more uncertain. We are also concerned by the resumption of shelling from Pakistani territory along Afghan border regions, which has resulted in the loss of civilian lives. We also continue to devote special attention to the situation along the border with Tajikistan, where militants control the Afghan districts of Imam Sahib and Dasht-e-Archi, in Kunduz province, and a number of districts in Badakhshan province. We are furthermore alarmed by the situation in areas bordering on Turkmenistan, where an attack in August against the head of counter- terrorist operations, First Vice-President Dostum, took place, along with armed attacks by Taliban fighters against Turkmen soldiers.”

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  13. “I shall now make a statement in my capacity as representative of the Russian Federation. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Yury Fedotov, and the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Tanin, for their briefings. The situation in Afghanistan remains complicated. Unprecedented terrorist activity persists, and the number of civilian casualties as a result of the recent fighting has reached a steady, very high level. We are alarmed by the escalation in the internal political conflict in the country following the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.”

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  14. “I thank Mr. Fedotov for his briefing. On behalf of all the members of the Security Council, I would like very warmly to welcome Ambassador Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations. This is the last time he joins us in the Council in that capacity. We are grateful to Ambassador Tanin for his cooperation with the Security Council. We wish him every success in his future endeavours. I now give him the floor.”

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  15. “Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2015/684, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. I also wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2015/7l3, which contains a letter dated 15 September 2015 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council. I now give the floor to Mr. Haysom.”

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  16. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Slovakia, Sweden and Turkey to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, and Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr.”

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