However, serious challenges remain.

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.

Recognizing also that diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses severe risks for families, Member States and the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

LJ user al_lex_ey and NewEurasia.net's Annasoltan offer a rare glimpse into the Turkmen parade.

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.

Iraq's challenges are also the challenges of the international community.

BEIJING In the coming years, China s government will have to confront significant challenges to achieve stable, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth.

In spite of the commendable drop in the infection rate, Kenya's health sector continues to face serious challenges from malaria and other communicable diseases.

Finding ways of obtaining consistent and complete information on NTBs, as well as clarifying their definition and classification, will be major challenges in the coming years.

Such deployment would involve considerable logistical challenges given the size of the area of operation, the minimal existing infrastructure and the security challenges described above.

But the link between the global financial and economic crises will confront Europe with severe challenges but also a big opportunity.

Ms. Holguín Cuéllar (Colombia) said that, despite significant achievements, her country still faced many challenges in promoting the advancement of women.

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.

Other disarmament machinery and frameworks, including the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission, which are currently stagnating, are also facing profound challenges.

Cultural challenges

One potential solution would be for states to represent each other, as occurs in the International Monetary Fund. But the IMF s experience exposes significant challenges in implementation.

Recognizing that globalization, technological change and the need for the integration of the developing countries and other recipient countries into the world economy represent major challenges and, at the same time, opportunities for their development,

But these difficult talks face significant challenges from outside the negotiating room, particularly from Hamas, which is intent on ensuring that nothing happens without its approval.

This process is particularly challenging for the prosecution, which has several hundred thousands of pages of investigative material in addition to thousands of pages of court documents.

Financing challenges

Although the United Nations has made progress lately in strengthening its coherence in post conflict situations, significant challenges remain in the policy, institutional and financial fields.