Progress was documented in annual reports.

More often than not, delays occurred at the reimbursement stage because donors failed to respond to the Secretariat's communications.

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

Despite serious financial and human constraints, my country has made appreciable progress towards those objectives.

Real progress was being realized, he said through the establishment of the Constitutional Review Commission in February 2004.

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 group made considerable progress in its first two sessions, although some substantial issues are still open.

Progress on the matter has been made on the Ethiopian side following the Government's agreement to the implementation of direct flights by UNMEE aircraft.

As work progressed it gradually became clear that MAD I was a new language independent of the original 7090 version of MAD.

In 2004, UN Habitat made considerable progress in preparing the global urban indicators database version 3.

However, only a few have made progress over the whole spectrum of policies geared to increase the mobilization of domestic financial resources for development.

Should that review conclude that sufficient progress has been made, the international community should be prepared to embark on a process leading to status talks.

The world has made progress on the fight against HIV AIDS, but much remains to be done.

The implementation of the Habitat Agenda, while it had progressed, was still impeded by poverty, whose scope should not be overestimated.

Mr. Ben Tura (Israel) said his country had made advances in combating desertification, promoting renewable sources of energy and advancing technology to reduce global disasters.

In the first phase, the Office has made good progress in gathering facts relating to the universe of crimes alleged to have taken place in Darfur as well as to the groups and individuals responsible for those crimes.

Resolution 1325 (2000) calls for the full inclusion of women in international peace and security processes and for action in four critical areas. We note that progress has been made in a number of those areas.

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.

Women's representation in political life had progressed in all fields, although a gap between men and women still existed in certain areas.

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.

The design of a database to facilitate the efficient retrieval, storage, management and analysis of all the data which the Team has gathered has now progressed through all the necessary stages, and the database is currently under construction.

It is indisputable that the world has made considerable progress in implementing some of the MDGs. But there is another undeniable fact that is far less encouraging the situation in Africa.

While many countries have made significant progress toward gender parity in education, girls still account for 57 of the out of school children worldwide.

The assumptions regarding the unsuitability of Iraq's dedicated biological weapons production facilities were reinforced by the lack of evidence at the time that Iraq had progressed beyond research and development of biological warfare agents.

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

Members note that considerable progress has been made over the last years in streamlining the resolutions on the item UNRWA' and note the importance of exploring the possibility for further streamlining.

I also note with satisfaction the comments made by the External Auditor, in his interim report, that OCG has made significant progress in fostering the principles of good corporate governance, with particular emphasis on the concepts of integrity and accountability.

They suggest that greatest progress has been made in relation to the development and implementation of national forest programmes, or similar frameworks in extending stakeholder participation and in the development of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management.

The Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space had made significant progress in its work on issues relating to the establishment of an international, technically based framework of goals and recommendations for the safety of nuclear power sources in space.

The members note that considerable progress has been made over the past 10 years in streamlining the resolutions on the item United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and note the importance of exploring the possibility of further streamlining.

The programme, which was the last started among Iraq's efforts in the field of weapons of mass destruction, materialized after Iraq had already developed and deployed its chemical weapons and progressed in the modification of foreign missile systems.

Tom scored a goal.

Some progress has been made.

And, indeed, there has been real progress.

Ms. Leyton (Chile) said that over the past decade her country had made progress in developing legislation and institutional mechanisms based on the principle of affirmative action, the right to self determination, the value of participation, and the need for reparations.

On the other hand, the entities had made notable progress in harmonizing their legislation with State level standards, particularly as regards the single economic space (laws on insurance), refugee return (entity laws on refugees and displaced persons) and multi year budget control.

UN Habitat made significant progress in strengthening the Foundation, pursuant to the requests of the General Assembly to enable the Foundation both to support the activities of the Programme and to mobilize resources to complement efforts by Member States to provide affordable shelter, infrastructure and services.

That represents great progress.

During his visit to Colombia, the Special Rapporteur noted that even though the country has made more progress than its counterparts in the region in terms of recognizing the rights of indigenous people, it still faces enormous challenges with regard to the effective protection and promotion of indigenous people's human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The UNOCI security component, in close cooperation with the Ivorian authorities and other international security focal points in Côte d'Ivoire, has made progress in the implementation of necessary security measures to protect UNOCI personnel and property.

There is some progress, however.

Some progress has been made towards implementation of the Agreement.

Progress has certainly been made.

Progress in establishing the new system has been significant.

The Council has made considerable progress in that regard.