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External Actors in the Afghan Problem continues....
Though there had been numerous agreements between Afghanistan’s neighbours and other states involved in the conflict to end the arms supplies as part of a larger peace process, none of these agreements has been backed by any enforcement mechanisms. On 21 July 1999, at a meeting in Tashkent of the Group of Six-plus-Two, comprising the countries bordering Afghanistan plus the US and Russia, the delegates signed an agreement subsequently known as the Tashkent Declaration (see Annexure V) in which they “agreed not to provide military support to any Afghan party and pledged to prevent the use of their territories for such purposes,” and called upon “the international community to take identical measures to prevent delivery of weapons to Afghanistan.”
Timely action by the United Nations to bar military support to all parties to the conflict could have reinforced the measures agreed by the states principally responsible for the ongoing flow of training and advisory supports, weapons, and other military assistance.
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