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<p>The UK Government was appalled by the attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul last
month. The Foreign Secretary and the Minister for South Asia, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon,
publicly condemned the attack. The UN Security Council made clear the need to hold
perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism
accountable and bring them to justice, in its statement of 13 May. We commend this.
We continue to support the Afghan National Defence and Security Force (ANDSF), helping
them combat the threat from insurgent groups. All ethnic and religious groups, including
the Hazaras, have equal rights and an important role to play in Afghanistan's political
decision-making. At the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Afghan Government accepted
our recommendation that they establish an independent mechanism to assess how security
protection can be improved for religious and ethnic minorities.</p>
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