3. Urges the Afghan Government to prepare to take over full responsibility for its security following the withdrawal of international forces; calls on the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to support the military and civilian capacity-building of the Afghan Government and its national security forces in order to establish stability and security as an essential basis for socio-economic development and avoi
d creating a vacuum once the country assumes full responsibility for its own security after 2014; underlines the r
...[+++]isk that the withdrawal of international forces in 2014 may create an economic vacuum;