Infant mortality rates remain high.

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

Unfortunately, Afghanistan's share of opium production continues to remain high.

In the more diversified economies, unemployment will remain high, and it will remain difficult to retain educated and skilled nationals.

Tensions between the 200,000 Sudanese refugees and Chadian host communities remain high.

Civilian monitoring and protection activities across the Sudan remain a high priority.

Unfortunately they remain under represented in high profile posts (scale 14 and higher).

As a result, Europe will remain a net energy importer. And, given rising global demand for oil, particularly in developing countries, energy import prices will remain high.

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

It shares the Government concern that the level and frequency of such crimes remain extremely high.

In the more diversified economies, unemployment rates are expected to remain high because job creation is slow.

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As the Oslo Summit on Education for Development approaches, I remain firm in my commitment to securing the right to a high quality education for every child in Pakistan especially for girls, who have long faced high barriers to education. But there remain considerable obstacles to fulfilling that commitment.

While trafficking must remain high on the agenda of human rights and migration issues, female migrants must not be stigmatized.

The first is improving the quality, safety and relevance of basic education, so that student enrolment and motivation remain high.

Tensions remain high especially in north eastern Katanga, where several clashes have occurred between FARDC units and Mayi Mayi groups.

Appointments should remain the ultimate responsibility of the Chair of the Commission Council, with appropriate inputs by the High Commissioner.

The fundamentals of healthy and stable economic development in China remain unchanged, the conditions of production factors supporting high quality development remain unchanged, and the overall momentum for long term stability and improvement remains unchanged.

The number of admissions to therapeutic and supplementary feeding centres is slowly declining, although malnutrition rates in some locations remain high.

However, as humanitarian needs still remain very high, it is extremely important that donors remain fully engaged in the Sudan in 2006 and that the requirements of the 2006 workplan are met in a timely manner.

For the foreseeable future, many points of the globe where UNHCR staff must reach people in need would remain high risk areas.

Concerned that, notwithstanding the end of the cold war, several thousand nuclear weapons remain on high alert, ready to be launched within minutes,

Since tensions and the prospect of renewed fighting remain high, a thorough assessment of the impact on civilians has not yet been possible.

Tensions remain high in the independence minded region a year after the October 1 referendum deemed illegal by Madrid but celebrated by separatist Catalans.

Public expectations of possible peace dividends remain high, but there is a general perception of low Government responsiveness to the needs of the population.

The number of illicit small arms and light weapons in circulation, as well as the number of the victims of those weapons, remain unacceptably high.

We trust that efforts to fight impunity will remain a high priority for the Organization, recognizing the central role of the International Criminal Court in that respect.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

Noting that, despite some recent initiatives to facilitate and to reduce the costs of remittances transfers, the costs incurred by migrants remain high and could be reduced,

The Maišiagala repository, since 1963 operated by the Soviet military, was closed in 1988, but high risk radioactive sources, including caesium, still remain buried at the site.

In West Asia and Central Asia, high levels of corruption, including the participation of civil servants in such activity, remain prevalent in many parts of the region.

Fiscal constraints will remain, as governments continue to fund public goods. Adequate taxation of high income individuals and high profit companies, together with strong and sustained efforts to reduce tax avoidance, will become even more vital to defend the revenue base.

Only in northern Darfur does United Nations accessibility remain reasonably high, despite attacks on villages and towns that occasionally force international non governmental organizations to withdraw their staff.

Complex regulations and government requirements, high compliance costs, ineffective bankruptcy laws, as well as bribery and corruption, are some of the main factors for poor people to remain informal.

He regrets, however, that infant and under five mortality rates remain high, largely as a result of preventable or treatable causes, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis.

Even in Europe, the numbers confessing to a belief in God remain high. And, of course there are hundreds of millions of Hindus and still solid numbers of Sikhs and Jews.

To produce results, learn lessons, ensure high quality cooperation support in all programme countries and remain the world's voice for children, UNICEF needs sustained growth and predictability in its core income.

The High Commissioner's Five Commitments to Refugee Women1 and the age, gender and diversity mainstreaming initiative remain the main guides for enhancing gender equality and participation for refugee women in Africa.

Emphasizing that the existence of widespread extreme poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights its immediate alleviation and eventual elimination must remain a high priority for the international community,

High ambitions remain for significant results across a broad range of issues by then, and that is necessary if we are to have a chance of finishing the round in good time.

Organizations must remain dynamic to remain relevant, and the OSCE is no exception.

The good news is that growing discipline seems to be pushing out low return investment. And there is every reason to believe that investment will remain high as the economy s capital base expands.

With another year of uneven job creation, the problems associated with long term and youth unemployment have become more deeply embedded in the economy s structure. Inequalities remain too high, and continue to grow.

Widespread shortfall of most Millennium Development Goals constrain the development prospects of sub Saharan Africa, where continuing food insecurity, high child and maternal mortality, expanding slums and rise in extreme poverty remain widespread.

For its part, Panama reiterates today that the canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will remain open and secure, demonstrating the high degree of efficiency to which the international community is accustomed.