The Abkhaz authorities were still hindering any progress.

Although much progress is being made in the fight against malaria, major interventions are still needed.

Despite progress in expanding the use of SSC, mainstreaming of the modality is still not optimal.

There are good signs of progress, but children still face major challenges.

The group made considerable progress in its first two sessions, although some substantial issues are still open.

In that context, however, it would still be premature to talk about substantive progress having been made.

The protest note falls within a process of negotiations between the two States which is still in progress.

The protest note falls within a process of negotiations between the two States which is still in progress.

Yet despite all that progress we still have a long way to go.

This progress still does not appear in most of the multilateral reports based on data from several years ago.

Although progress had been made on many fronts since January 2005, gaps still remained.

Overall, the situation is one of commendable progress, but with much still to do.

In spite of this progress, we recognize that poverty is still acute in our rural areas and that unemployment is still a recurring issue, particularly in our urban areas, where the youth, mostly unskilled, have flocked.

Overall, the picture remains mixed some more progress, but still some delays headway being made, but serious lags in some areas.

While commendable progress has been made in resource mobilization, there is still a major imbalance between earmarked and non earmarked contributions.

Although significant progress has been achieved in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the West Africa region still hosts more than 400,000 refugees.

Although considerable progress had been achieved in restructuring the public education system, equitable access to quality education still remained a challenge.

Despite the fact that women are still underrepresented in the political parties and that their participation in decision making is still small, some progress has been made in their representation in the legislative bodies constituted after the elections.

This paper presents a discussion of the progress that has been made and the obstacles that still exist in implementing such actions.

Despite that positive impetus, however, it was still too early to say whether progress was being made in resolving human settlement problems.

Ms. Coker Appiah said that, while much progress had been made, much still remained to be done.

Although there had been political progress, the security situation was still a cause for concern, with attacks on economic targets in some areas.

Still, I would have liked to see our firm commitment to fight terrorism accompanied by progress in disarmament and non proliferation as well.

While many countries have made significant progress toward gender parity in education, girls still account for 57 of the out of school children worldwide.

Although further progress is expected at the end of the workshops in May 2005, the project will still be a long way from completion.

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

This proportion rose from 35.2 to 46.9 per cent over that period, which represents significant though still insufficient progress.

But although serious progress has been made, there are still around two male senior managers for every female manager.

Although overall we have seen some progress in improving the working methods of the First Committee, we are still struggling in other parts of the disarmament machinery.

Negotiations among coastal States with a view to developing a new treaty on the legal status of the Caspian Sea began in 1994 and are still in progress.

Taking into account the fact that, despite some progress in the fight against poverty, its level is still high in many countries with economies in transition, particularly in the rural areas,

SADC member States, individually and collectively, have made significant progress in the area of youth development and empowerment, although there are still challenges and constraints to contend with.

Despite the progress achieved in the 1996 2002 national programme for the advancement of women, Mongolia still had a long way to go to ensure full gender equality.

Although the literacy rate is still lower in comparison with the urban population, the progress occurred in the last decade in terms of the average number of years of schooling is undeniable.

Similarly, significant progress has been made in the implementation of policies aimed at reversing discrimination against women and against indigenous and Afro descendant groups, but sharp disparities still prevail.

Ten years after the signing of the peace agreements and notwithstanding the progress made, obstacles still remain to the achievement of progress towards increased political participation and representation, strengthening of the rule of law and better governance.

WASHINGTON, DC The world has made enormous progress in recent decades in the fight against poverty. But, as 2015 begins, one billion people one in seven still live on less than 1.25 a day.

While progress has been encouraging, greater efforts are still needed, including in countries with low prevalence, to establish baselines and improve understanding of the impact of HIV AIDS on children.

While the country should have achieved considerable progress on preserving biodiversity by the end of the year, land degradation still posed a serious problem.

Even if some progress had been made in the area of implementation of legislation and public policies, it was still important to have a declaration in order to address tasks that were pending.

The Ministers declared that the imbalances and inequalities found in global trade and the debt burden still constitute monumental hindrances to genuine social, economic and political progress in developing nations of the world.

Yet it is still too early to write off progress toward increased European integration. In fact, when it comes to EU cohesion, more cleavages are probably better than a single divide.

Significant progress had been made since the adoption of the Domestic Violence Act in 2000, even though there was still a degree of resistance by the bodies called upon to intervene.

Eradication of poverty in general is not adequate to deal with the systemic nature of women's poverty, since women will still be the last to benefit from grass roots economic progress.

Mr. Pham Hai Anh (Viet Nam) said that, even though progress had been made, women were still victims of marginalization, discrimination and acts of violence.