Despite encouraging progress since the Johannesburg Summit, sustainable development remained a major challenge.

In Morocco, real wages have been stable despite significant and continuing real appreciations since 1986.

They refused and had been living in the open ever since despite the confiscation of their tents.

Despite MONUC preparations for repatriating the remaining FDLR combatants, there had been no tangible progress since the announcement.

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

The situation remains critical and despite intensified fund raising efforts, WFP has received only limited pledges since October 2004.

However, despite the passage of several years since the adoption of resolution 1379 (2001), there seems to be little progress.

Despite the considerable reduction in nuclear arsenals since the end of the cold war, more and deeper cuts were needed.

61. Since it began operations in 1995, UNHCR has made a significant difference in areas of return despite limited funding.

Despite repeated requests by the United Nations, he has not been allowed to return to play his facilitation role since then.

As noted in my previous reports, despite numerous appeals, the Fund has had a decreasing level of resources since its inception.

And they repeated the trick after finishing a lowly sixth at March's Track World Championships in London, despite Hoy having since retired.

Despite MONUC preparations for repatriating the remaining FDLR combatants, there has been no tangible progress in that respect since the March announcement.

Despite the up and down since then, the overall trend and this is the important bit clearly points downward for the past two decades.

Despite extensive racial mixing since the time of Spanish colonization, a percentage of the Uruguayan population should still be identified as having indigenous ancestors.

Despite the important advances made in the decade since the Beijing Conference, gender issues had not been mainstreamed as much as they could have been.

The occupation forces had not allowed even a single refugee to return to his home since the invasion, despite repeated appeals from various international bodies.

Despite severe operational and security constraints, UNAMI has grown in size and expanded its activities beyond Baghdad since it resumed operations in Iraq in August 2004.

Codification in that area was therefore necessary, since nationality, despite being primarily governed by domestic standards, was of ever greater interest to the international public order.

Despite there being different issues, the court granted the stay requested since one of the issues was in respect of a matter agreed to be arbitrated.

Despite these incidents, it was also reported that since October 2004, the Minister for the Interior was more cooperative on a variety of issues raised with him.

Despite the many difficulties that the Mission has faced since its inception one year ago, I believe that we have earned the confidence of the international community.

Despite this treaty, however, since 1990, those who desired to acquire Czech citizenship had an opportunity to do so on the basis of filing the relevant application.

Despite the fact that he had experienced pains since those events had taken place, he had reportedly received no treatment, nor had been examined by a physician.

Despite countless General Assembly resolutions since 1948, the Israeli Government continued its policy of usurping Palestinian land and property, depriving the Palestinian people of its rightful inheritance.

32. Lastly, he expressed concern, despite some tangible progress, about the late submission of documentation, since its timely availability was essential to the deliberations of intergovernmental bodies.

Since that time, despite the adoption of two further resolutions by the Commission (resolution 1994 20, para. 17, and resolution 1995 15, para. 17), nothing has eventuated.

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Despite an apparent stabilization of the economy and growth in private sector activities since 2003, progress towards economic recovery is unlikely to benefit all Palestinians comprehensively or equitably.

Despite a reduction in the number of active missions, the workload has not decreased, since a number of accounting actions continue while missions are in the liquidation phase.

The case of Sierra Leone confirms this, since despite the company s presence in the country for several months, the coup d état of May 1997 could not be avoided.

237. The Committee notes with concern that the infant and maternal mortality rate is still high, despite the efforts made since the time of the country s initial report.

Peacekeeping assessments outstanding on 30 September 1998 stood at about the level in 1995 and 1994, despite a significant decrease since then in the level of peacekeeping activity.

Despite my efforts,

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher. Despite the considerable decline in Greek (and Italian and Spanish) real GDP since 2007, adjustment is far from complete.

7. Despite the progress that has been achieved in recent years, the principal characteristics of the situation have not changed fundamentally since the independent expert s interim report in 1993.

Intensive investment in private residential construction still accounts for the bulk of investment despite a growing share of public investment in infrastructures, financed largely through official transfers since 1994.

That had arisen from that fact that, in general, the master plans for Palestinian towns and villages had not been adjusted since 1948, despite the growth of the population.

55. Despite the optimistic outlook, and although progress had been made since the negative growth of the 1980s, economic growth had remained modest 0.8 per cent from 1991 to 1996.

128. For example, despite optimistic predictions, since mid 1997 the Tribunal has not been able to obtain additional space for its headquarters in the Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) complex.

Despite British forces having been engaged in two major military operations since 2003, defense spending represents only 2.3 of GDP the lowest since the 1930 s. As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8 in 1998 to 6.1 in 2006.

Despite the economic hardship suffered by Cuba, Cuban educational institutions had, since 1961, provided an education for 351 Palestinians on full scholarship programmes, 298 of whom had received a university degree.

Despite delays in the electoral process, the transition period has, on the surface, suffered fewer military and security upheavals since the beginning of 2005 than during the same period a year ago.

Despite of the existence of constitutional guarantee for gender equality in the rights to education since the Indonesian independence, some traditional gender stereotyped practices in almost all aspects of education remain prevalence.