Despite the challenges described above, the prospects for Sierra Leone are promising.

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

Despite progress made, the diamond sector continues to face many serious challenges.

Despite those achievements, New Zealand recognizes that the Court still faces challenges.

That, in the case of the young Aboriginal boys, is true despite their own extreme challenges.

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

Despite these challenges, the prospect for peace between the north and south of the Sudan is promising.

Despite their diverging interests, private sector agents face common obstacles and challenges throughout their operations.

The African countries' determination to maintain a positive momentum, despite the many and complex challenges, is truly admirable.

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

Despite these gains, women and girls in Afghanistan face formidable security, human rights, social and economic challenges.

Despite the considerable progress achieved in recent years, further efforts were needed to meet the challenges that the country was facing.

The report presents in a graphic form what we had planned to do in order to achieve the Goals the challenges we are facing our achievements despite the challenges and the way forward.

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

Ms. Holguín Cuéllar (Colombia) said that, despite significant achievements, her country still faced many challenges in promoting the advancement of women.

Despite the progress achieved by MINUSTAH in fulfilling its mandate, security challenges are expected to increase in the months leading to elections.

The delivery of humanitarian assistance continued throughout Liberia, despite the challenges posed by the rainy season and the poor condition of the country's roads.

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

Despite the country's great accomplishments in its efforts to ensure equal rights and opportunities for women and men, it still faced serious challenges.

Despite these challenges, I was encouraged during my visit to the region in May by the commitment of the parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

The Government of Georgia, like other sponsors of this draft resolution, remains committed to meeting its financial obligations under the Charter, despite the difficult challenges facing it.

Despite the above mentioned achievements, however, new challenges are emerging as thousands of ex combatants, internally displaced persons and refugees continue to return to their homes.

Despite the complications and challenges described in this report, the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and the Mission's mandated support to the parties, are largely on track.

Despite all efforts, women's sex roles and stereotyping remain major challenges to the implementation of the Convention. In this regard, the government has taken various measures such as

Despite the enormous challenges currently facing the world in the area of environment protection, the financial resources allocated to the institutions expected to implement environment protection programmes remained low, unstable and unpredictable.

It recognized that, despite the potential, there were still major challenges in improving e government services and efficiency and urged the secretariat to continue its efforts in such capacity building activities.

Furthermore, we have remained committed to health reform despite the many challenges the health sector is facing, and we continue to provide subsidized insecticide treated nets and drugs to needy communities.

In June 2004, the Chief Minister stated at the Parliament's budget session that Gibraltar's economy, despite the external challenges it faced, was in robust shape and continued to grow at healthy rates.

Despite the massive challenges that countries like Syria, Somalia, Egypt, and Afghanistan currently face, and global challenges like food security and climate change, the world has reason to be hopeful about the future. Notwithstanding today s tragic and terrifying headlines, we may be entering a new golden age of human history.

Despite those achievements, challenges remained because of the slow implementation of the rule of law and rising crime, the continued dominance of the illicit narcotics trade and a lack of infrastructure and employment opportunities for returnees, which posed serious challenges to the countries of asylum, countries of origin and the international community itself.

Asia s challenges are graver than those facing Europe, which embodies comprehensive development more than any other part of the world. Despite China s aura of inevitability, it is far from certain that Asia, with its pressing internal challenges, will be able to spearhead global growth and shape a new world order.

The challenges of Africa's development came into renewed focus at the dawn of the new millennium as the international community began to confront with renewed concern and commitment the developmental challenges that continue to be posed by the developing countries in general, and Africa in particular, despite a measure of progress and prosperity in several areas of the world.

And, indeed, within two years of taking power, Sadat expelled the Soviets from Egypt and began to build a friendship with the US that, despite challenges and periodic differences, has proven important and valuable ever since.

Despite the progress achieved, however, much remained to be done in terms of exchanging experiences and information at the international level and supporting systems of justice in developing countries that faced huge economic and other challenges.

Despite the aforementioned progress and achievements, the Lao People's Democratic Republic is still facing various challenges. These include the poor socio economic infrastructure and isolation from world markets owing to its being a landlocked least developed country.

Despite the work completed to date by UNAMIS, much preparatory work remains to be done in view of the extraordinary logistical challenges encountered owing to the size of the Sudan and the lack of infrastructure in many areas.

Despite the progress made in many fields of international cooperation, the problems of hunger, poverty and such diseases as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis have taken on horrific dimensions and continue to pose major challenges to the international community.

Despite the challenges posed by the adoption and use of ICTs in developing countries, tourism enterprises with well conceived websites are given an opportunity to access international tourism markets on an equal footing with competitors from developed countries.

Despite extraordinary growth since the start of its transition to a market economy in 1979, China is facing serious challenges simultaneously rising inequality, large and growing levels of environmental degradation, stubborn external imbalances, and an aging society.

Iraq's challenges are also the challenges of the international community.

Despite the current favourable security environment in the country, serious challenges remain, which include the limited progress in addressing the root causes of the conflict such as corruption, governance, widespread poverty, including massive youth unemployment, and the resulting public discontent.

Today, on the sixtieth anniversary of this great institution, the tenth anniversary of Palau's membership in this body, and the tenth anniversary of Palau's independence, I affirm that the people of Palau, despite all obstacles and challenges, will play their part.

The Team reminds States that, despite suggestions to the contrary from the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (A 59 565, para. 152) and others, the Committee has long had in place criteria for both listing and de listing.

There are challenges. There are challenges.

Despite the challenges posed in respect of the adoption and usage of ICTs in developing countries, tourism enterprises with well conceived websites are given an opportunity to access international tourism markets on an equal footing with competitors from developed countries.