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[...] to improve the difficult socio-economic [...] [...]

[...] [...] torture remained difficult to combat because [...]

[...] MDGs will be difficult without a significant [...]

New Zealand recently hosted the fortieth anniversary meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, at which leaders expressed concern about the potentially devastating economic consequences of NCDs and their impact on MDG achievement when the region is already struggling to meet the 2015 targets.

The role that the ocean plays in mitigating climate change by absorbing the extra heat produced and by absorbing approximately one third of the total annual emissions of carbon, is having a toll: the basic systems of the oceans are being modified and irreversibly altered.

However, over the past few months, we have seen that partnership falter as the African Union has been undermined in its preventive diplomatic efforts, in cases such as Côte d’Ivoire, the Sudan and Libya.

[...] trade was more difficult amid sluggish growth [...] [...]

It is therefore vital to address the dysfunctions of that process; otherwise the merit-based promotion system will be biased from the beginning and be anything but equitable.

[...] difficulty in standing and walking.

2012 was a difficult year, especially in the second half, notably because of the uncertainty about Corum’s future, [...] [...]

Venezuela considered it important that the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights continue its efforts to achieve greater effectiveness in its difficult task and made a recommendation.

Under these circumstances, UNRWA delivers its mandate with difficulty and is sometimes compelled by the constraints of the context to avail itself of exceptional waivers to the relevant rules.

[...] [...] Operations in order to further the commitment and actions of peacekeeping in the area of child [...]

[...] [...] on their mandates in a very difficult environment.

(d) Institutional environment: Some partners – the unions, institutes and some of the broadcasting associations – told the evaluators that they felt constrained in advocating for public broadcasting reforms, owing to resistance from some of their stakeholders, state broadcasters in particular.

[...] financial climate and the difficulties in [...] [...]

[...] [...] that success in the reconstitution and further development of the national police will [...] [...]

Afghans confront serious obstacles to the enjoyment of their human rights, as the country struggles with the legacy and continuing reality of armed conflict and limited achievements in the democratization and state-building process.

Although the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament identified the goal of nuclear disarmament as the key priority for international efforts in the field of disarmament and arms control, the world is still witnessing setbacks in the process of achieving nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the universality of the NPT, the cornerstone of the global disarmament and non-proliferation regime.

[...] climate made difficult in particular [...]

Increased insecurity in Southern Sudan related to the faltering LRA peace process is a further concern.

[...] [...] their tasks, since the establishment of the two peacekeeping missions; this is without prejudice to the continued [...] [...]

[...] [...] cases from staff in peacekeeping missions and in particular [...] [...]

Although three of the five countries neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire, namely Ghana, Guinea and Liberia, are Kimberley Process participants, those States continue to struggle with the implementation of the Scheme, and loopholes in their systems of internal controls continue to allow the circulation of Ivorian rough diamonds.