That represents great progress.

The Chiang Mai Initiative has made significant progress.

Bangladesh has achieved considerable progress in socio economic sectors.

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Indeed, humanitarian work is, overall, making major progress.

There is no doubt that much progress has been made.

I am pleased to report that significant progress has been made in this regard during the reporting period.

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

As a result of those and other measures, her country had made considerable progress in the return of refugees.

Afghanistan has made great progress in recent years in the peacebuilding and reconstruction process.

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

14.3 African countries have made significant progress in economic and social development in recent years.

It's gone through science as an inquiry, which was a big advance, and Dewey back at Chicago you learn by doing.

Progress made in reducing violence in Colombia has been significant and the world acknowledges that.

The summit culminated in the adoption of that document, which represents great progress in the areas of disarmament, security and human rights.

In the Commonwealth, 11 of our 53 members have already recorded significant progress on the MDGs, but 31 have made slow progress, and some are actually going backwards.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities made considerable progress during 2004 towards fulfilling the legislative requirements of the European Community feasibility study.

I am very happy to inform the Assembly that we in Bangladesh have made significant progress in various areas I have just mentioned.

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.

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

The Government that was formed in December 2004 made good progress through its first 100 days, and the momentum was considerable.

With support from UNDP technical advisers, the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General have made significant progress in the implementation of the Government's public administrative reform programme.

Soon after the war though Douglas made a large advancement with the DC 4, although this could not cross the Atlantic at every point, it was able to make a nonstop flight from New York to the United Kingdom.

The decommissioning of the armed wing of the Free Aceh Movement has made significant progress, as has the withdrawal of non organic Indonesian armed forces from the province, in accordance with the peace pact.

The programme to unify the city of Mostar made significant progress, despite the complexity of the project and the continued obstruction by hardliners on both sides.

Two years after the judges, Prosecutor and Registrar assumed office, the Court is making substantial progress in developing its capacity and exercising its core functions. However, the Court cannot succeed alone.

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

However, the very fact that half of women in this section of the private sector is in ownership positions presents a great progress in relation to the social sector.

It is our expectation that in the next six months or so, we will, and must, make substantial progress on management reform issues.

We hope to make substantive progress on those issues in the forthcoming negotiations, particularly at the meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group to be held in February 2006.

Thanks to competent and accountable domestic management and wise supervision by the Executive Intelligence Committee, intelligence reform progressed substantially during the period under review.

The Mixed Parliamentary Inquiry Commission Report (CPMI) on commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents disclosure represented a significant advance in the analysis of the situation of this crime in Brazil.

Yet, however crippling the effect of sanctions might be, they will not bring the regime to surrender its nuclear program.

Regular consultations take place between the Office of Legal Affairs and the Department and, as a result, significant progress has been made by the Department in the delivery of translations on a timely basis.

The Optional Protocol just adopted represents substantial progress towards strengthening the legal protection of United Nations and associated personnel participating in the operations carried out by the Organization.

The OCG has since made significant progress in fostering the principles of good corporate governance, with particular emphasis on the concepts of integrity and accountability.

Benin had made great progress in eliminating the practice of genital mutilation and was open to sharing its experience in that regard with Governments of the subregion.

I note with satisfaction that since the Summit of World Leaders for Action against Hunger and Poverty, convened last year by President Lula, we have achieved significant progress.

To be sure, in one area that is of particular importance to my delegation the transparency of the Council's working methods and achieving closer interchange with States not represented on it the Council has made significant progress.

In recent times, many countries have made significant progress in aligning institutions to stimulate economic growth and mainstream the concerns of the poor within the policy making processes of their Governments.

During the reporting period, universities made further progress with the curriculum reform process, which envisages the incorporation of compulsory courses on humanistic subjects, including human and women's rights, into all degree programmes.

We are pleased to note that considerable progress has been made over the past year in implementing the objectives of the Convention, particularly regarding the enlargement of the membership and the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles.

Although the talks did not make as much progress as had been hoped for, a number of positive developments took place during the negotiations despite the background of ongoing violence in Darfur.

All of the subsidiary institutions under the Convention, namely, the International Seabed Authority, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, have made considerable progress in their respective areas of work over the past year.

4. Also welcomes the assessment by the United Nations Development Programme that the Territory has made considerable progress in the domain of sustainable human development and in its sound management and preservation of the environment, which has been incorporated into the National Tourism Plan