In Afghanistan, legal assistance activities are aimed at supporting Afghan authorities in implementing the new drug control law and strengthening the drug control machinery.

ISAF is currently running KAIA.

Sometimes nothing will do but your own sweat and muscle.

The overall health care situation in Afghanistan remains poorly managed and monitored.

The long term objective is the management and operation of the airport to be transferred to the Afghan authorities.

In July the United States reached an agreement with the Government to transfer Afghan nationals to the exclusive custody and control of the Ministry of Defence.

That issue continues to imperil the establishment of the rule of law and effective governance in Afghanistan, despite the best efforts of the country's counter narcotic authorities.

52. Welcomes recent initiatives to promote border management cooperation in drug control between Afghanistan and its neighbours

The European Union looks forward to the publication of the Government of Afghanistan's national drug control strategy.

51. Despite the withdrawal of international staff, the Office of the United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA) Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan has continued its operations throughout most of the country.

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The central commercial district of Kabul, Afghanistan at the end of the civil war, shortly before the city fell to the Taliban.

Noting that the overall drug control situation in Afghanistan had seriously deteriorated over the past year, the President called on the Government of Afghanistan to fulfil its obligations under the international drug control treaties and ensure that its people were protected from the scourge of illicit drugs.

Despite these achievements, the economic and developmental challenges facing Afghanistan remain daunting.

15. Calls upon the international community to enhance financial and technical support for Afghanistan in order to enable the Government to implement successfully its national drug control strategy

NATO also has continued its role in running Kabul Afghanistan International Airport (KAIA), with the expected handover from Iceland to Turkey due to take place on 31 January.

Afghanistan is still a source of major concern, although its counter narcotics strategy is valid it may take at least 10 years to eliminate the problem.

That amount has been remitted to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, which is managed by the World Bank.

While its task was not an easy one, it made a vital contribution to the peace process.

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60. The pilot country programme of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) for Afghanistan has developed steadily but slowly.

Despite the many problems facing Afghanistan, this is the largest repatriation anywhere in the world this year and brings the total number of Afghans who have returned to 4.1 million.

Moreover, the security of the pipeline in Afghanistan is in question as long as civil strife continues.

However, despite the efforts it had undertaken, the international community had not prevented the production of heroin in Afghanistan.

However, NATO's firm intention is to hand over the entire responsibility for Kabul International Airport to the Afghan authorities in the longer term.

In 1996, UNDCP developed a four year drug control programme to provide assistance to Afghanistan.

53. Despite the withdrawal of most international staff, collaborative efforts continue within the assistance community to implement principled common programming of aid activities in Afghanistan.

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Despite the fact that the final provision of the Bonn Agreement has been implemented, many challenges remain in Afghanistan.

As a result, the Afghan state is at risk of takeover by a malign coalition of extremists, criminals, and opportunists. Opium is choking Afghan society.

Yet Afghanistan had been successful to a limited degree, despite its restricted possibilities, in its endeavours to combat illicit drugs.

Afghanistan provides an example of a country to which many refugees have returned despite ongoing conflict.

But, despite having finalized the terms of the agreement, Obama failed to persuade Afghanistan s outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, to sign it. That means that America s role in the country can be settled only after the new Afghan president assumes office in May.

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A caretaker government would precede the establishment of a representative government to be elected by the Afghan people.

NEW DELHI Despite some last minute brinkmanship by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the United States and Afghanistan seem to have worked out a bilateral security agreement to govern the 8,000 10,000 (mostly American) troops that will remain in Afghanistan from next year. But Afghanistan remains a source of significant uncertainty and high anxiety in an already unstable region.

Afghanistan for Afghans has always been Turkey's motto.