The Security Council decided to extend the mandate of the sanctions monitoring team against individuals and entities associated with the Taliban for a period of 12 months, confirming its grave concerns about the ongoing violence in Afghanistan. .
This came with the unanimous adoption of Resolution 2557 (2020), and the 15-member Council directed the Monitoring Team to collect information on cases of non-compliance with measures and facilitate capacity-building assistance, at the request of Member States..
The Council welcomed recent efforts to facilitate intra-Afghan negotiations, and highlighted the importance of ensuring that the Monitoring Team receives the administrative and technical support necessary to carry out its mandate effectively, in a safe and timely manner..
Today, 6 Afghan soldiers were killed and 4 others were wounded as a result of a Taliban attack targeting a security center in Badghis province in northwestern Afghanistan, where the militants targeted a center of the Afghan General Protection Forces of the Ministry of Interior. He indicated that the attack also left seven missing in the ranks of the security forces. .
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