Afghanistan has made great strides in its efforts towards nation building.

This year has witnessed major strides towards sustainable peace in the Sudan.

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

During the reporting period, the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities made significant strides towards implementing a single set of tax rules, applicable throughout the country.

Despite the energy, resources and efforts diverted from development in order to preserve democracy, Nicaragua has made major strides towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.

Over the three years which have elapsed since it gained independence in May 2002, Timor Leste has made remarkable strides towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

State authority has been restored throughout Sierra Leone and significant strides have been made towards re establishing the Government's control over the country's diamond mining sector.

Two forums are making great strides.

Moreover, only new strides towards disarmament by the big nuclear powers, and a guarantee of access to technology and know how under international control, can stop the trend toward nuclear sovereignty.

Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity improvements for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.

Where there is consensus, let us take big strides.

Education. China has taken enormous strides in building human capital.

Pakistan s trans community has made some strides in recent years.

In Myanmar, we have made great strides in fostering gender equality.

Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

The ICC has made enormous strides in the period under review.

Yet Turkey has made remarkable strides in the midst of regional upheavals.

In the last decade, Uribe s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.

Although women were still relatively underrepresented in top posts, significant strides had been made.

2. Welcomes all efforts by countries of the region to overcome the effects of past conflicts, and also the efforts of the international community, which have helped the countries of the region to make great strides towards peace and stability

The Ministers noted that although the objectives of the NWICO have yet to be fully realised, some Member Countries have, individually, made significant strides towards attaining a balanced flow of two way information among themselves and with non Member Countries.

Every small step helps, and the combination of small steps adds up to large strides.

This institution has made significant strides for the sake of world peace, security and development.

UNICEF and its partners continued to make great strides in achieving tangible results for children.

UNHCR had made significant strides towards that goal in 2004 and its collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) had served to highlight the critical link between forced population displacement and international peace and security.

China has already made some great strides in the areas of the environment and clean energy.

The United Nations has made immense strides in promoting peace and universal values throughout the world.

The international community has already made great strides in elaborating many international instruments to combat it.

During my visit to Afghanistan in January this year, I acknowledged the many steps towards meeting the goals of the Bonn Agreement in the past three years, but also recalled the need for Afghanistan to continue making bold strides in the area of human rights.

Whatever our remaining disagreements on some issues, and whatever the need for further discussion on others on trade, for example we have made real strides towards alleviating the suffering endured by so many of the world's people at the hands of extreme, senseless poverty.

Some strides have been made in fulfilling the conditions for admission to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

Significant strides in health care can be made through existing drinking water systems and generic drug manufacturing.

It would be counterproductive to penalize countries like Costa Rica that had made significant strides towards disarmament, respect for human rights, a fair labour system and protection of the environment, by excluding them from cooperation programmes and restricting the entry of their products to developed countries' markets.

The IMF is making strides in the right direction, but emerging markets will have to remain in the lead.

Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1400) made early strides in the analysis of trigonometric functions in terms of infinite series.

There is no doubt that the United Nations and the international community have made important strides in addressing impunity.

Mr. Castillero Hoyos said that, although Mauritius had made significant positive strides in human rights legislation, some concerns remained.

With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.

In the decades that followed, huge strides have been made in lemur studies and many new species have been discovered.

Ongoing regional processes have made great strides in developing criteria and indicators that contribute to defining and assessing sustainable forest management.

The forum has made significant strides in establishing strong working relations with key civil society organizations over the last three years.

Sierra Leone has continued to make giant strides in all areas of human endeavour since the end of armed conflict in 2002.

This is a classic example of what I call block thinking, which seems to have made huge strides in Europe in recent years.

However, in the five remaining months of the period, the Office of the Prosecutor made great strides to further reduce the vacancy rate.

As the 90th anniversary approaches, China has made great strides in science, but still has a long way to go in terms of democracy.