For two years now, that country has been divided, fragmented and increasingly impoverished.

Physical distances have been increasingly blurred, and the world has become as one family.

Since the fifty third session, the idea has been increasingly embraced by many around the globe.

Yet the Commission's capacity to perform its tasks has been increasingly undermined by its declining credibility and professionalism.

In recent years, the family has been playing an increasingly important role in nurturing and educating Vietnam's future generations.

Recently, however, INSTRAW has been relying increasingly on United Nations regular budget funding for almost all of its requirements.

UNHCR has noted increasing violations of the principle of non refoulement worldwide, and reports that its staff has increasingly been denied access to asylum seekers.

Women have been increasingly active as indigenous leaders.

In recent years, the fundamental role of the IAEA for the promotion of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes has been increasingly recognized.

Agencies in all three Darfur States have started to engage with neglected nomadic communities, and access to remote locations has been increasingly possible.

1.62 The relationship between the United Nations and the various institutions of the European Union has been evolving rapidly and becoming increasingly intense.

Mutual political trust between the two countries has been continually enhanced, practical cooperation has continued to expand, and humanistic exchanges have become increasingly closer, which has brought tangible benefits to both peoples.

In addition, humanitarian workers and peacekeepers have been increasingly targeted.

In recent years, China and ASEAN countries has been increasingly deepening exchanges and cooperation in all domains, and constantly launched highlights in educational cooperation.

More recently the NGO role has been increasingly effective in the policy making process of the Organization particularly in the economic and social fields.

As a result, extreme poverty, which has until now been more common in rural than in urban areas, will become increasingly an urban phenomenon.

Many people have noticed that since the beginning of this century, the birth rate of South Korea has been below 1.5 and the problem of aging has become increasingly severe.

However, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult owing to the very nature of the financial reform that has been under way since the early 1990s.

Increasingly, better coordination has served as an instrument of consolidation.

Since that time, peacebuilding has become increasingly prominent in our debates.

Georgia's increasingly pro Western course, including growing ties to NATO, has been a thorn in Moscow's side. But it did not pose a serious threat to Russian security.

Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities. Real GDP has been increasing at around 3 a year in advanced countries, and even faster recently in many emerging countries.

The Government has increasingly assumed responsibility for disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.

Finally, the energy security problem has been complicated by the problem of global climate change. As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.

The qualification of judges, people's accessories and prosecutors at all levels has been enhanced, increasingly responding to the task of protecting citizen's rights and lawful interests including those of women.

Gravely concerned that the capability of the national economy to absorb such shocks has been seriously eroded and that the frequent occurrence of extreme natural disasters has increasingly contributed to the stagnation of social and economic development,

Since the Graça Machel report of 1996, the attention of the international community has been increasingly focussed on the promotion and protection of the rights of children affected by armed conflict.

The threat of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism (see annex V to the present report) is increasingly recognized as credible and has been highlighted in many international initiatives and meetings.

More important, the absence of a contentious Netanyahu Obama relationship will deny Republicans an easy target in mid term elections. (Such low hanging fruit has been increasingly scarce for the Republican Party, which is beleaguered by the perception that it has been hijacked by its most extreme elements.)

In fact, enlargement fatigue has been the dominant feature of EU relations with the western Balkan states and explains why the accession process has been flat lining along a path of frozen negotiations and mutual mistrust toward an increasingly uncertain destination. This remains the case even after Croatia s accession.

Moreover, the understanding of this issue at policy making and law making levels as well as in state agencies, social organizations, people's communities, families and by each individual has been increasingly deepened.

Lately, lost and abandoned fishing gear has increasingly become a worldwide high profile nuisance.

The Government has increasingly addressed matters previously considered private, such as violence against women.

The issue of illegal logging has become increasingly prominent in the international policy agenda.

Researchers at the CDC and other places have increasingly been linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles.

Bottom up approaches have several advantages over traditional methodologies which have been increasingly recognized in recent years.

Indeed, although structural adjustment continues in China, the economy is facing an increasingly serious contraction in demand and continued deflation. The consumer price index (CPI) has remained below 2 , and the producer price index (PPI) has been negative, for 44 months.

Since the introduction and actual application of the licensing system, significant reduction of CFC consumption has been achieved in most countries due to the increasingly restricted availability of CFCs (see Table 5 below).

The quality of developing country OFDI has also improved, as it becomes increasingly strategically oriented.

In the face of that violence, Iraqis have been increasingly willing to assist the Iraqi and multinational forces.

However, it was becoming increasingly difficult to address and had been exacerbated by various recent developments, particularly globalization.

Moreover, as it becomes increasingly difficult for currency markets to perform the role of orderly reconcilers, friction may arise among countries. This could disturb the unusual calm that lately has been comforting equity markets.

Maintaining stability in the increasingly fragile security environment has remained a major challenge for the Mission.

It is therefore increasingly used by FAO in its programmes and field projects being conducted on the basis of the recommendations contained in Agenda 21.1 However, until now, remote sensing has been largely technology driven.

Income inequality has been growing in the US over the last three decades, largely because the labor market has increasingly demanded skills that the education system has been unable to supply. The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing employment insecurity, as the old economy of well paying low skilled jobs with good benefits withers away.