The one major obstacle to Italian unity remained Rome.

Without a doubt, Israel will be a major obstacle to reaching an agreement.

Ataturk viewed Islam as a major factor holding back Turkey s progress.

A major obstacle cited by many Governments of affected States is lack of resources.

The 1996 peace accords that ended the decades long civil war removed a major obstacle to foreign investment.

Resolve the AIDS crisis, and we remove a major hurdle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Lack or inaccuracy of reporting is a key impediment to assessing the extent and nature of the problem.

Recognizing that poverty is a major obstacle to women's full realization of housing, land and property rights,

The presence of the wall had also impeded the efforts of UNRWA, particularly efforts to provide emergency humanitarian services to those affected.

Recognizing that poverty is a major obstacle to women's full realization of housing, land and property rights,

For many countries, the lack of financial resources is a major obstacle to efforts to increase road safety.

Aware of the devastating impact of crime on the national economies of African States and of the fact that crime is a major obstacle to harmonious and sustainable development in Africa,

The Almaty Programme of Action stipulates that inadequate infrastructure is a major obstacle to establishing efficient transit transport systems.

In contrast with Mexico s authoritarian past, when an imperial presidency constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed.

Limitations in physical infrastructure especially power, telecommunications and transport are a major obstacle for the activities of enterprises in developing countries.

3. Palestinians must live in peace and dignity, and permanent Israeli settlements on their land are a major obstacle to this goal.

When delivering siRNA to deep tissues, the siRNA must be protected from nucleases, but targeting specific areas becomes the main difficulty.

Reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are a major obstacle to the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,Resolution 41 128, annex.

More than 20 of all firms, in countries as diverse as Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Estonia, and Zambia, rate inadequate skills and education of workers as a major or a severe obstacle.

These questions are important, because fatalism has become a major obstacle that must be overcome by anyone seriously interested in bringing peace to the region.

Apportioning to Serbia three municipalities in the north of Kosovo (Leposavić, Zubin Potok, and Zvečan) around the town of Mitrovica, and the town itself north of the Ibar River, would remove a major obstacle.

The destabilizing accumulation of and illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons has proved a major obstacle to peace, to economic development and to efforts to rebuild war torn societies.

Noting with concern that hunger and malnutrition are a major impediment to sustainable development, and reaffirming that reducing hunger is a primary target of the Millennium Development Goals,

We urge greater efforts to be made to obtain the cooperation of the Kosovo Serb community with the Provisional Institutions, since that remains a major hurdle to constructing the necessary institutions of governance under the Constitutional Framework.

The Committee notes with concern that, according to certain reports, a major obstacle to the education and vocational training of persons belonging to ethnic groups is the fact that education is provided only in Lao.

Israel's continued occupation of the Syrian Golan represents a serious obstacle to the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and undermines international efforts to bring security to that vital region of the world.

Institutionalized corruption remains a major obstacle to honest and transparent government and thus to the consolidation of democracy and the promotion of sustainable development, especially in many developing countries.

Ignorance of the law on the part of women was a major impediment to their advancement, and she wondered what steps were being taken at the grass roots level and in rural areas to educate women about their social rights and obligations.

It is evident from the current report that lack of technical capacity is a major impediment that requires urgent, time bound remedial measures to accelerate the capacity building programmes and thereby move the infrastructure building agenda forward.

The confusion that still surrounds Europe s fragmented and therefore weak representation in international fora like the United Nations Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the G 20 and G 8 is a major hurdle in this respect.

However, in countries that were short of human capital and lacked the capacity to replace the loss of their most qualified workers, such outflows were a major impediment to economic growth.

Regrettably, the Union s inability to agree on a common policy has not only weakened its role on the international level, but has also become a major obstacle to determined action in the country itself.

Recognizing that in a number of countries illicit drug production represents a major obstacle to sustainable economic, social and political development and adversely affects political and social stability, thus requiring special policies and greater cooperation efforts,

This is a very high hurdle.

48 years of injustice and dictatorship.'

Mr. Pang Kwang Hwok (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said that environmental degradation was a major obstacle to sustainable development, adversely affecting human health and impeding national and international poverty eradication efforts.

The quality of Arab education is also an obstacle.

In fact, there is also a colossal technological hurdle.

Western education was an obstacle.

In several parts of the world where extensive stock rearing systems are used, it is indispensable to create conditions favouring the gradual emergence of a grazing right, in a context where the absence of a specific law on the use of grazing land is a major handicap.

In contrast with Mexico s authoritarian past, when an imperial presidency constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed. What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

But Taiwan remained a huge, seemingly impossible obstacle.

Let s hope this is nothing more than a snag.

Therefore, they do not represent an obstacle to the division of labour.

I would like to single out three central challenges to which we attach primary importance.