Failing or failed States and those emerging from conflict pose great challenges to international security.

As in many other African societies, prebendalism and high rates of corruption continue to constitute major challenges to Nigeria.

However, serious challenges remain.

They pose both conceptual and practical challenges.

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

Nevertheless, great challenges still lie ahead for Afghanistan.

The challenges that remain for Afghanistan, however, are still considerable.

Major improvements have been made in the situation of young women and young men in many areas, but we are still facing great challenges.

The challenges of keeping the world's people alive and healthy are many.

This poses significant challenges for in country coordination and harmonization.

At the same time, several major challenges stand in the way of sustainable peace and security.

There are good signs of progress, but children still face major challenges.

There are substantial challenges related to biodiversity in areas outside national jurisdiction.

For instance, there are significant challenges at the country level, before the actual provision of services.

Collectively, however, their explanatory power is relatively large.

Associated with it is the problem of illegal immigration, which presents serious challenges, particularly to small countries such as my own.

The crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan continued to pose major challenges to the humanitarian community at large.

However, the already dire humanitarian situation, coupled with the tsunami, poses considerable new challenges for the incipient Government of Somalia.

Natural disasters present particular challenges for the fulfilment of national responsibility as regards protection in the context of displacement.

Not much, the empirical evidence suggests. This might appear surprising.

That does not seem to matter.

And yet the upcoming election matters.

The international community must maintain its commitment to Afghanistan, where President Karzai's Government continues to face significant challenges.

The Court is to be commended for its investigative work, which, Australia recognizes, presents unique challenges on the ground.

Affordability does not appear to be a big hurdle.

In the long run, WikiLeaks matters for two reasons.

Ongoing decentralization and the attendant administrative reforms have created significant challenges to effective implementation of vector control programs.

And threats like terrorism, trafficking of arms, drugs, and people, and climate change are borderless and complex.

And if we're to make progress with the sustainability revolution, I believe there are three really big changes we need to bring about.

However, there are considerable challenges in scaling up the use of alternatives in these countries, which may undermine these early successes.

But Africa s national governments still face significant challenges, given the wide variety of factors at play in each country.

We have committed ourselves to challenging goals, in particular to reducing extreme poverty by half by the year 2015.

While the upcoming Hong Kong Ministerial Conference presented challenges, ambitions for the completion of the Doha Round were high.

The United States and Japan remain important drivers of the global economy but face major debt and deficit challenges.

Given the number and complexity of international agreements and agencies that cover it, the environment poses particular challenges to coherence.

The announcement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of its intention to withdraw from the Treaty raises important challenges to the credibility and the functionality of the Treaty.

You are presiding over the work of the Council at a time when the United Nations is discussing the great challenges facing the world collective security, development and respect for human rights.

Nevertheless, many major challenges remain to be confronted in order for the United Nations to continue to respond effectively to evolving circumstances in the electoral field.

An inward looking Japan would be a loss for the entire world.

In large parts of the world, small arms and light weapons are weapons of mass destruction.

Malaria and tuberculosis (TB) do not constitute major problems in Bahrain as neither disease is indigenous to the country.

A great majority of estates were left without a man so that women constitute the majority of the population.

Private consumer expenditures account for a large percentage of total funding for health care.

Similarly, in every region of the world, there are large countries with developmental and nation building challenges and regional understanding to add wisdom to the debate.

Unfortunately, the problem of nuclear arms is still very serious today.