And it has already had some victories.

On the other hand, European diplomacy has had some remarkable successes.

It has also made progress by adopting a bilateral strategy.

With international assistance, Afghanistan has made substantial progress towards stability.

In the intervening years, that idea has made steady progress.

Mexico has made satisfactory progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

To be sure, Solidarity achieved a stunning political success.

By the end of the session, the Subcommission had made good progress in its work.

The Gambia had made progress, against the background of the National Policy for the Advancement of Women.

Notable progress had been achieved by SADC member states in implementing those commitments.

The Government has made phenomenal progress in the little more than three months since its relocation.

Since 2000 till now, Viet Nam has made new progress, especially in the following areas

Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

The Government has made considerable progress in increasing its control over the diamond mining sector.

States have made good progress in the effective implementation of national legislation to criminalize money laundering.

The CARICOM States had achieved significant advances with regard to women's empowerment.

Spanish associations working in solidarity with the Saharan cause had had some success, resisting pressure exerted on them.

During the reporting period, Timor Leste has made further advances towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

The Subcommission had made considerable progress in the examination of the submission of Brazil by the end of the fifteenth session.

Progress is being made the battle against poverty is slowly (too slowly) being won.

No country has opened such a repository, although Sweden has made significant progress in doing so.

All have uncompetitive economies burdened with high unemployment.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia has achieved mixed progress in gaining full control over the exploitation of the country's natural resources.

An online training module has been partially successful, and a new initiative will be launched at the end of 2005.

It is common knowledge that the United Nations has scored major successes in Sierra Leone and that UNAMSIL is on the verge of completing its withdrawal.

Although they have made significant social progress in recent years, they have become centers of popular unrest.

That trend is now decreasing as Bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving gender equity.

Fourthly, with respect to the international legal order and human rights, over 50 years the United Nations has had remarkable success.

In the provincial elections in January 1946, the League took 75 of the Muslim vote, an increase from 4.4 in 1937.

In Sierra Leone, while human rights concerns remained, the Special Court had made progress, but was impeded by lack of funding.

Ireland had made much progress in attaining equal rights for women, although much remained to be done.

The Government of Sierra Leone, with the support of UNAMSIL and other bilateral and multilateral partners, has made considerable progress in the implementation of the benchmarks.

As a middle income country in transition, Croatia had made progress and was ready to share its experience.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

Over the past few months, MINUSTAH has made progress towards creating an environment in which the political transition can unfold.

China had made great progress in the realm of space technology and space science research in the past year.

Victory achieved, Hamas will take on the responsibility for the Palestinian side in the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Education In its first years of independence, Armenia made uneven progress in establishing systems to meet its national requirements in social services.

As the Government makes progress in this sector, more funding will flow through government mechanisms instead of bypassing them.

I am pleased to report that Australia has made good progress in the first four years of its 10 year strategy.

During the reporting period, progress was made by the Joint Verification Mechanism and the Tripartite Commission in de escalating regional tensions.

The region made substantial progress towards poverty reduction in 1997 only to backslide since then.

The progress of the Defence Reform Commission, led by chairmen Raffi Gregorian and Nikola Radovanović, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Defence Minister, has been impressive.

With the critical assistance of the United Nations and with commendable donor partnership, our Transitional Government has made definite gains in the execution of its mandate.

There were some successes last year, the most important being that our foreign debt, which restricts our economic sovereignty, is close to being paid off.