UN General Assembly
2014

soil. The continuation of such attacks is unacceptable to Afghanistan. We hope that the Government of Pakistan, considering our common interests in ensuring peace and stability, will put an end to any kind of acts that could endanger the prospects for good-neighbourly relations and will act to protect cooperation and trust between our two nations. The Afghan Government is keen to reduce the negative economic impact of the security transition and to move towards sustainable economic development in at least three ways. First, we will focus on the development of agriculture and the agribusiness sector, where more than 70 per cent of our population is directly or indirectly engaged, with enormous potential for growth and employment generation. Secondly, Afghanistan is estimated to hold trillions of dollars worth of natural resources, including minerals and hydrocarbons, representing a guaranteed source of wealth and income for generations to come. We already have several State-owned and private companies from China, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan and other countries, in addition to Afghan companies, expressing a keen