But significant challenges and massive inequalities remain.

However, significant differences remain among developing regions.

However, a few significant restrictions still remain.

Significant problems remain in the case of local bodies.

Despite significant achievements, however, major challenges remain in all areas.

Significant openness, allowing emigration and immigration of all components (closed systems remain static).

Conflict and civil strife remain significant obstacles to development, especially in West Africa.

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Enrolment levels in primary education remain low and show significant regional and gender disparities.

Thus, while a significant proportion of expenditure is denominated in euros, some dollar expenditures remain.

While significant progress has been made towards the ICPD goals in many countries, serious problems remain.

This programme had significant successes in a number of areas, many of which remain malaria free.

This provides support for the process, although significant priority requests and requirements remain to be covered.

Despite the efforts of the United Nations, significant obstacles to full implementation of United Nations activities remain.

Meanwhile, even in countries which have been independent for quite some time, significant vestiges of colonialism remain.

While significant steps have indeed been taken this year and while we remain optimistic about the chances for lasting peace, we recognize the major challenges that remain.

They remain the only countries that impose a price for carbon upon a significant part of their economies.

Supporting Governments and agencies remain a significant source of information and assessment on past proscribed programmes in Iraq.

Despite progress towards physical reconstruction and social development since Timor Leste attained independence in May 2002, significant challenges remain.

This scientific understanding is incomplete, and there remain significant uncertainties about the precise magnitudes, timing, and dangers of climate change.

Those policy areas that citizens consider the most significant in particular welfare and education remain under the direction of member states.

ERW remain a significant problem in Iraq with their impact being significantly increased because of their intentional misuse by insurgent forces.

The Security Council recognizes that significant progress has been made in implementation of resolution 1308 (2000) but that many challenges remain.

There was considerable progress on the human rights situation in Timor Leste during 2004, but there remain significant human rights challenges.

These serious deficiencies have exposed the Organization to a significant risk that the loss or misappropriation of assets would remain undetected.

While this represents a significant improvement, serious concerns remain regarding the lack of institutional capacity, resources, and qualified prosecutors and defence counsel.

The root causes of the 2007 violence rampant poverty, significant income inequality, pervasive corruption, inadequate internal security, and an unemployment rate exceeding 40 remain.

Stability the firm's ability to remain in business in the long run, without having to sustain significant losses in the conduct of its business.

Serious problems remain, and the Organization's capacity to weather significant shortfalls is very limited, since the resources available for cross borrowing are not substantial.

The Committee is also concerned about the legal status of a significant number of long term residents in the State party who remain stateless.

Without significant progress on trade liberalization, many of these markets will remain depressed and it will be difficult for export diversification to take off.

Alternative modes of action remain limited and vulnerable, but they exist and will not disappear in an authoritarian regime, that is already a significant achievement.

Moreover, while the contributions of regional initiatives to economic development can be significant, member countries should remain the owners of the development and reform agenda.

Nor is there full awareness of the impact on family members who remain behind, especially children, since a significant proportion of the migrants are mothers.

Although a number of donors have been generous in their support for humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, significant funding shortfalls remain.

In the near term, the first issue with significant policy connotations for Governments in the region is that oil prices have aggravated the situation of already significant volatility and are likely to remain under upward pressure for some time.

However, the significant effort that States, as well as NGOs, invested in the reporting process could not be reduced further if it was to remain meaningful.

Indeed, certain gaps still remain in higher degrees, but there too, the figures show a significant rise in the percentage of female students among these sectors.

The embargo has a significant impact on the country's economy it has been and will remain until it is dismantled the fundamental obstacle to our development.

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.

Despite important positive developments on a great number of issues occupying the attention and energy of our Organization, a significant number of old problems remain unresolved.

The Union is likely to become even more significant in the next 40 years, which is why the UK should remain fully committed to shaping its future.

We are happy to inform the Assembly that significant progress has been made in the implementation of the master plan, although several projects remain to be completed.

Several difficult areas remain, however, where further progress is needed for the European Commission to consider that significant progress has been achieved across all 16 reform priorities.

(c) To strengthen action to promote universal primary education, paying specific attention to the situation of girls, whose enrolment and drop out rates remain a significant problem.