United Nations expressed serious concerns over recent worsening security in Afghanistan. The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, highlighted the challenging security environment that persisted in Afghanistan, which in 2016 resulted in UNAMA recording the highest number of civilian casualties in a single year. Presenting latest reports on the situation in Afghanistan yesterday, Yamamoto said that despite some notable progress, Afghanistan’s deteriorating security situation was making service delivery and economic growth more difficult. Meanwhile condemning the recent surge in “abhorrent” terrorist attacks across Afghanistan — including one that killed 30 people at a Kabul military hospital on 8 March — speakers in the Security Council yesterday urged that country’s international partners to deepen their cooperation, target terrorist sanctuaries and help to build up the capacity of the national unity government. Several speakers expressed deep concern over heightened tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the former’s representative pointing out that the recent attacks had generally been plotted beyond the Durand Line in Pakistan.
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