UN Security Council
2041

High Peace Council and its outreach efforts both within and outside Afghanistan, Recalling the Government of Afghanistan’s commitments at the Kabul Conference to strengthen and improve Afghanistan’s electoral process, including long-term electoral reform, in order to ensure that future elections will be transparent, credible and democratic, and reaffirming that Afghanistan’s peaceful future lies in the building of a stable, secure, economically sustainable state, free of terrorism and narcotics and based on the rule of law, strengthened democratic institutions, respect for the separation of powers, reinforced constitutional checks and balances and the guarantee and enforcement of citizens’ rights and obligations, 12-27286 3 S/RES/2041 (2012) Welcoming the contribution of the International Contact Group to the United Nations efforts in coordinating and broadening international support for Afghanistan, Emphasizing once again the agreement reached at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Lisbon Summit 2010 between the Government of Afghanistan and countries contributing to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to gradually transfer full security responsibility in Afghanistan to the Afghan National Security Forces country-wide by the end of 2014, taking note of