Deep concern was expressed over the serious problem of trafficking in human beings.

Drug trafficking and processing remain the subject of considerable concern.

The importation of explosives and heavy weapons is of serious concern.

The situation of children in Burundi is extremely worrying.

The situation of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains very worrying.

Over the years, however, that provision had been a source of great concern.

However, it expressed serious concern for the situation in the country.

The situation in the occupied Syrian Golan is also a matter of grave concern for the international community.

However, funding for the programme remains a serious concern.

There were also major concerns over the lack of food, clean water and sanitation.

(g) There are serious concerns about the use of imputed or significantly adjusted figures for countries.

It often happened that, following the end of a conflict, the humanitarian situation remained very worrying.

11. Security of United Nations staff working in Afghanistan remains a major concern.

The continuing violence and the unsettled political conditions in Afghanistan are, therefore, a matter of profound concern for my country.

However, the failure to arrest the remaining six indictees at large remains a major concern.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is deeply concerned about the worldwide escalation of acts of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

The human rights situation in Côte d'Ivoire has seen no notable improvement and remains a cause of grave concern.

The conflict in southern Sudan continues to be of great concern to, and a source of anguish for, us in Uganda.

The Committee of Actuaries had expressed serious concerns about some of the observations and requests made by the External Auditors.

The Special Rapporteur is particularly concerned about the Refugee Act proposed in May 1994.

O'FLAHERTY said that human trafficking had been identified as a matter of grave concern in the State party.

There remains significant concern for the safety of United Nations staff members and other international aid workers in the Gaza Strip.

The Governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are deeply concerned at the growing humanitarian and human rights crisis in Zimbabwe.

Also gravely concerned that the legal system is effectively used as an instrument of oppression and at the increasing intimidation and detention of lawyers,

At the same time, I am very concerned by the continuing and increasing human rights violations perpetrated against innocent civilians.

However, the situation of 260,000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija was a major source of concern for her country.

Among the deterrents to development, drug trafficking remains one source of grave concern to the Governments of the Caribbean.

In our own region, the situation in Haiti has been of great concern to Jamaica and our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partners.

35. The health hazards of pesticides was a serious concern raised by women at the Peasant Women apos s Summits.

The resulting rising unemployment and social unrest are of great concern to these countries.

My fellow citizens were deeply troubled by the ruin of so many efforts of development, the failure of so many attempts at reconciliation.

Like all members of the Pacific Islands Forum, New Zealand is seriously concerned about the need to protect biodiversity from the adverse impacts of that activity.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the increase in the number of occupational accidents in the State party since 2001.

The increased vulnerability of children and adolescents to violence within the juvenile justice system was considered a serious concern by the participants.

The Secretary General's Palestinian interlocutors were also much concerned by what they described as continuing unilateral acts by Israel.

Unannounced launches of missiles, as we have seen in recent years, can provoke major concerns for international and regional security.

There was also serious concern at the increasing rate of HIV AIDS infection in Myanmar, which was now spreading to its neighbours.

I am most concerned that these groups are apparently being rearmed and trained with external support in contravention of Security Council resolutions.

The health of the adult and child population in these and other areas contaminated by radiation is of serious concern and requires continuous medical control.

At the same time, I would like to point out that the urgent economic and social situation in South Africa is also a source of major concern to us.

Furthermore, it is having adverse effects on the humanitarian situation in the country, the deterioration of which is of profound concern to the international community.

The rapid deterioration of the traditional family unit in industrialized countries is a cause of great concern because no other central, cohesive structures are there to take its place.

Seriously concerned at all attacks upon religious places, sites and shrines, including any deliberate destruction of relics and monuments,

It is a matter of great concern to Barbados that in attempting to justify those highly dangerous shipments, some have pointed to the safety record of such shipments.

The threat posed by the possible weaponization of outer space and the risk of a subsequent arms race are of great concern to my Government.