22. Considers the Afghanistan New Beginnings Program (ANBP) Aghaz Nau, initiated by the
United Nations and only recently started up in Kunduz and Gardez, to be a first step in the process of DDR which should definitely be accelerated and
move rapidly beyond purely symbolic gestures; calls on the Commission and Council, through the EU Special Representative in Afghanistan, Francesc Vendrell, to identify and support the creation of jobs for demobilised combatants as part of long-term regional development strategies
...[+++]; calls on the UN to make sure the programme is not co-opted by any factional Afghan force;