Nevertheless, challenges remain.

However, serious challenges remain.

Yet many challenges remain.

However, many challenges still remain.

However, obstacles and challenges still remain.

The challenges that remain for Afghanistan, however, are still considerable.

For many disadvantaged segments of the population, however, serious challenges remain.

Despite these achievements, the economic and developmental challenges facing Afghanistan remain daunting.

The HIV AIDS crisis and the prevailing violence against women also remain challenges.

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

We for our part stand ready to help meet the challenges that remain.

A great deal has been achieved in some areas, but many challenges remain.

Serious challenges in addressing issues related to violence against women in Afghanistan remain.

Those diseases remain serious challenges to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

However, immunization coverage, universal salt iodization, safe water supply and environmental sanitation remain challenges.

Noting that challenges remain in achieving the goals of the three pillars of sustainable development,

Challenges remain, but we are determined to continue to make progress and further strengthen our judiciary.

While significant steps have indeed been taken this year and while we remain optimistic about the chances for lasting peace, we recognize the major challenges that remain.

Despite the doubts and the difficult challenges ahead, the hope and optimism of the past months remain.

Nevertheless, women and girls in Afghanistan remain beset with formidable security, economic, social and human rights challenges.

Although it is evident that progress on youth development has been made on many fronts, many challenges still remain.

However, challenges remain, due to our aging population and the increase in the number of vehicles on our roads.

The fact that not all of the forecast achievements for this year have been realized shows that challenges remain.

Despite progress towards physical reconstruction and social development since Timor Leste attained independence in May 2002, significant challenges remain.

Despite the fact that the final provision of the Bonn Agreement has been implemented, many challenges remain in Afghanistan.

However, the challenges of rebuilding communities and directing people particularly our young people away from deviant social behaviours remain daunting.

However, disadvantages and challenges facing women in rural areas as pointed out in the previous report remain unsolved in the main.

The Security Council recognizes that significant progress has been made in implementation of resolution 1308 (2000) but that many challenges remain.

We remain convinced that European integration is the only way to find permanent solutions to existing problems and challenges in the area.

However, the continued existence of hundreds of millions of children exposed to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence demonstrates the grave challenges that remain.

Finally, in spite of the impressive progress, serious challenges remain before the goal of a stable, prosperous and fully democratic Iraq is achieved.

Stereotypic attitudes and discriminatory practices remain persistent challenges and continue to undermine important gains, including in the fields of education, health and work.

Bearing in mind the challenges and obstacles to changing discriminatory attitudes and gender stereotypes, and stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of international standards and norms to address the inequality between men and women,

Bearing in mind the challenges and obstacles to changing discriminatory attitudes and gender stereotypes, and stressing that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of international standards and norms to address the inequality between men and women,

The Treaty should be improved and, despite the challenges it was currently facing, should remain the cornerstone of the disarmament and non proliferation regime.

We have also taken note of the Director General's statement that the lion's share of the task lies ahead and that major challenges remain.

Even if all 15,000 UN troops could be found and deployed, the challenges in Lebanon will remain daunting. The UN insists that Resolution 1701 does

The mission nevertheless expressed concern about the challenges that remain with regard to monitoring and enforcement capacity as well as regulation of the diamond sector.

The world cannot afford an expensive competition in outer space when there remain so many challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and deprivation.

While most possessor States could complete their destruction campaigns by or before 2007 or 10 years after the Convention's entry into force major challenges remain.

But the European Union also recognizes that many challenges remain, challenges that were highlighted in the 10 priority areas of the World Programme of Action, as well as in the five new priorities identified in the World Youth Report 2003.

Nevertheless, many major challenges remain to be confronted in order for the United Nations to continue to respond effectively to evolving circumstances in the electoral field.

Although the United Nations has made progress lately in strengthening its coherence in post conflict situations, significant challenges remain in the policy, institutional and financial fields.

6. Underlines the fact that there remain key challenges to implementing sustainable development and eradicating poverty in mountain regions as well as challenges in the areas of national involvement, international cooperation, support for partnerships and mobilization of financial resources, and against this background

We cannot really afford an expensive competition in outer space while there remain so many other challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and other deprivation.