Emergency International Assistance for the Reconstruction of War-Stricken Afghanistan

A/RES/47/119View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 141 Emergency international assistance for the reconstruciton of war-stricken Afghanistan, published in 1993.

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Afghan Refugees Afghanistan Afghanistan Situation Conferences Displaced Persons Economic Assistance Emergency Relief Experts Fact-Finding Missions Good Offices Humanitarian Assistance Inter-Agency Cooperation Reconstruction Refugee Assistance Repatriation Resettlement Resources Mobilization Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Encouraqes the efforts of the Government and people of the Islamic State of Afghanistan towards rehabilitation and reconstruction;

Welcomes with appreciation the efforts undertaken by the Secretary-General in drawing the attention of the international community to the acute problems of Afghanistan and in mobilizing assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country;

Urgently appeals to all States, organizations and programmes of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to provide, on a priority basis, all possible financial, technical and material assistance for the repatriation and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons, full restoration of basic services and reconstruction of Afghanistan, having in mind the availability of the Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund as referred to in paragraph 5 below;

Requests the Secretary-General:

(~)

To ensure the continued operation and further strengthening of "humanitarian and economic assistance programmes relating to Afghanistan";

To dispatch, as soon as possible, a team of experts to Afghanistan to evaluate the situation in the light of the war damage and destruction and to prepare,a comprehensive report, in cooperation with the Government of Afghanistan, on requirements for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country;

(£)

To initiate a plan for mobilizing financial, technical and material assistance, including the convening of a conference of donor States and international financial institutions;

Also appeals to all Member States, in particular donor countries, to provide emergency financial assistance to the Afghanistan Emergency Trust Fund established in August 1988 and to consolidated appeals by the Secretary-General for emergency humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan;

1/ See A/47/705-S/24831, para. 32.

I ...

Invites the international financial institutions and specialized agencies, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system, where appropriate, to bring the special needs of the Islamic State of Afghanistan to the attention of their respective governing bodies for their consideration and to report on the decisions of those bodies to the Secretary-General;

Invites the Secretary-General to continue to monitor the overall situation in Afghanistan and make available his good offices as required and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-eighth session the item entitled "Emergency international assistance for the reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan".

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents