Urges all the Afghan parties to undertake to achieve a comprehensive political solution including free and genuine elections, cessation of armed confrontation and the creation of conditions that will permit the free return, as soon as possible, of all refugees to their homeland; urges all the parties to carry out, as soon as possible, a disarmament process which constitutes a prerequisite to a solution to the conflict, as decided also in the Islamabad agreement signed by the Afghan parties; urges all the parties to halt the use of weapons against civilians, protect all civilians from acts of reprisal and violence, including ill-treatment, torture and summary executions, and expedite the release of prisoners wherever they may be held and calls for the abolition of prisons run by political parties; calls upon the authorities to investigate throughly the fate of disappeared persons to apply amnesty decrees equally to all detainees, to reduce the period during which peisoners await trial and to treat all prisoners in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; appeals to all Member States to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, to alleviate the suffering of refugees, especially the living conditions of women and children; urges the authorities in Afghanistan to continue to extend their full cooperation to the Commission on Human Rights and its Special Rapporteur.

Adopted without vote, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1993.