On the other hand, the situation in Côte d'Ivoire continues to concern us.

The significant number of States that are late in submitting their national reports to the CTC remains of particular concern.

The issue of healthy eating has long been an important concern to individuals and cultures.

Over exploitation of living marine resources through excessive fishing continues to be of grave concern to the international community.

Violence against children, including sexual violence, continued to be a source of grave concern, particularly in the impoverished districts of Port au Prince.

The internal political situation in Kosovo remains a real concern.

The situation in Darfur remains of gravest concern.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

The nuclear programme of the Islamic Republic of Iran remained a source of concern.

While cooperation with all States in the region continues to improve, the failure to arrest high level accused such as Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić and Ante Gotovina remains a major concern.

The importation of explosives and heavy weapons is of serious concern.

Inadequate funding to the non food requirements of 135 million remains a growing concern as the food first culture continues to dominate funding trends.

That freedom of movement has remained delicate is a source of concern that requires urgent attention.

It stipulated that Lebanon would not be made a threat to Syria's security and that Syria was responsible for protecting Lebanon from external threats.

The number of impunity cases is a concern for journalists and rights groups.

That is a favourite method of bypassing embargoes and a source of particular concern for the Security Council.

The outbreak of bubonic plague in 1894 became a concern to the Hong Kong Government.

Security is a major concern while concerning the mobile computing standards on the fleet.

The number of accused still at large, however, is cause for concern.

The human rights of women and children, although improved, remain a matter of great concern.

Press coverage of the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire continues to be of concern.

The absence of judicial authority in the zone of confidence is of concern to the impartial forces, which do not have the mandate of supporting the judicial system.

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is causing a great deal of concern to the shipping world.

The situation in the occupied Syrian Golan is also a matter of grave concern for the international community.

The lack of progress on the Israeli Syrian front is of great concern to all of us.

He demonstrated, at least initially, a genuine concern for the welfare of the people.

Physical security of refugees remained a central concern during the reporting period.

This is of particular concern considering 23 of marine mammal species are currently threatened.

The Palestinian Authority's inability to exercise control over its territory remains a source of great concern.

Communication between international agencies and countries, and within countries, seems to be a major source of concern.

Another major source of concern, in addition to the level of poverty, is the degradation of the environment in Haiti.

Odious fishing practices are of particular concern to the small island States of the Pacific Ocean.

The human rights situation in Côte d'Ivoire has seen no notable improvement and remains a cause of grave concern.

Nevertheless, I remain deeply concerned that parties, the movements as well as the militia, continue to use children as combatants.

O'FLAHERTY said that human trafficking had been identified as a matter of grave concern in the State party.

Thailand is particularly concerned at the problem of trafficking in persons, which continues to have a negative impact on vulnerable groups in many parts of the world.

The security of witnesses who testify before the Tribunal continues to be an issue of concern to my Government.

First, with respect to youth and its relationship to the global economy, the disparities and difficulties of integration were of widespread concern.

Campaigns also addressed the scope and scale of forced evictions of the poor, which have raised widespread concern.

As with continued settlement activity, Israel's ongoing construction of the barrier remains a source of deep concern.

The United States remained seriously concerned about the ongoing allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in MONUC and other peacekeeping missions and much remained to be done by the Organization and its Member States in order to address the situation in an effective manner.

The HIV AIDS pandemic continues to pose grave challenges to our development efforts.

While the sixty first session of the Commission on Human Rights attracted more than 3,000 participants, including a record 88 senior Government officials addressing the high level segment, the politicization of the Commission's debates and the lack of consideration of certain situations involving grave human rights violations remains a deep concern.

The climatic factors of concern include droughts and projected reductions in freshwater availability due to global warming.

Current threats of attack on nuclear facilities under full scope safeguards of the IAEA are a source of grave concern.