Security Council resolution 1193 (1998) [on the situation in Afghanistan]
[The Afghan conflict]

Calls upon all States neighbouring Afghanistan and other States with influence in the country to intensify their efforts under the aegis of UN to bring the parties to a negotiated settlement; condemns the attacks on the UN personnel in the Taliban-held territories of Afghanistan; condemns also the capture of the Consulate-General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mazar-e-Sharif, and demands that all parties and, in particular the Taliban, do everything possible to ensure safe and dignified passage out of Afghanistan of the personnel of the Consulate-General and other Iranian nationals missing in Afghanistan; requests the Secretary-General to continue investigations into alleged mass killings of prisoners of war and civilians as well as ethnically-based forced displacement of a large group of the population and other forms of mass persecution in Afghanistan; urges the Afghan factions to put an end to the discrimination against girls and women and to other violations of human rights as well as violations of international humanitarian law; demands the Afghan factions to refrain from harbouring and training terrorists and their organizations and to halt illegal drug activities.

adopted unanimously, resumed 3921st meeting

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Concerns the situation in Afghanistan.