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.

They pose both conceptual and practical challenges.

However, serious challenges remain.

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

I believe there are three really big changes we need to bring about.

It's this immensely exciting and challenging problem.

Nevertheless, great challenges still lie ahead for Afghanistan.

We continue to face great challenges that will demand even more sacrifice and assistance.

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

And Nepal is very mountainous, very remote, big developmental challenges, just like Yemen.

So, we've got big cost challenges here, we have transmission challenges for example, say this energy source is outside your country you not only need the technology, but you have to deal with the risk of the energy coming from elsewhere.

All of these situations pose challenges to the international community that call for urgent and concerted action.

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.

While much has been accomplished, there are still considerable challenges ahead of us.

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.

Collectively, however, their explanatory power is relatively large.

The migration of skilled professionals poses special challenges to African countries, especially as they have, in general, limited human resources.

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

I believe it will be referred to as a revolution, so to speak when society, faced with great challenges, made a seismic shift from individual getting and spending towards a rediscovery of collective good.

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

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

That does not seem to matter.

And yet the upcoming election matters.

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

At present, the nuclear disarmament and nuclear non proliferation regime faces significant challenges.

Effective implementation of this mandate poses great challenges for the United Nations system and the international community as a whole.

The accomplishments of these years have been remarkable, but we must focus our sights on the challenges for the future.

Affordability does not appear to be a big hurdle.

In the long run, WikiLeaks matters for two reasons.

There are challenges. There are challenges.

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.

We live in an age that confronts the international community as a whole, and the United Nations in particular, with big challenges.

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

Current changes in the strategies of transnational corporations posed new challenges to human resource policies in developing countries.

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

The different responses of Muslim societies to the challenge of modernization are accompanied by a great ideological debate among political and religious leaders.

The responsibilities entrusted to the presidency of the Assembly in this context are therefore both challenging and unique.

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

I should like to take this opportunity to comment on a number of issues which pose new challenges for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.