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.

Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.

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

Despite the reported progress in the country, Manila is still home to hundreds of thousands of informal settlers.

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.

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.

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

This means that even though Brazil has made progress on paper, the system is still failing rape victims in practice.

Despite the aforementioned progress and achievements, the Lao People's Democratic Republic is still facing various challenges.

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.

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.

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

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.

Although some Central Asian countries have made progress, most still lag other emerging markets in accountability, rule of law, and reducing corruption.

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.

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.

The Council's consideration of the progress report on its agenda today allows us to appreciate the progress made limited, of course, but still significant in the process of the stabilization and normalization of the overall situation in Kosovo.

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.

Still, despite the difficulties of rooting out the very last cases, the progress made against polio has been historic.

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 this tendency has been reversed and average annual population growth over the last five years was less than 1 , the demographic transition is still in progress, and Mexico still has a large cohort of youths.

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.

We are still waiting for a new vision, which will lead to progress, but this time, we hope, without tyranny.

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.

The new strategic arms reduction treaty, which is still a work in progress, and the CTBT have already aroused skepticism from opposition legislators and opinion makers.

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,

Wen Jiabao wrote recently in Sichuan that more hardship will arouse the country, evidently believing that the Chinese may still need to suffer further in order to realize political progress.

There is not yet a Volcker Rule (limiting proprietary trading by banks), the rules for derivatives are still a work in progress, and money market funds remain unreformed.

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.