While this is, in 1996, an increase over the previous years, participation continues to be very low.

The programme continued to increase sustainability despite continued growth in operating expenses.

I'd gained a lot of weight and developed something called metabolic syndrome.

The number of recruits volunteering to serve their country continues to increase.

Yet, violence against women continues and often increases even as armed conflict draws to an end.

As a result of these efforts, the growth rate of orbital debris will decline, although the overall debris population will still increase.

However, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons continued to rise.

Increasing official development assistance remains an essential and continuing challenge.

Despite those efforts, drug abuse continued to rise among both young people and adults.

This is still a very high number, and we are looking into all sorts of methods of increasing private sector investment to increase private sector employment.

Those efforts had led to increasing trade flows but the process remained fragile .

Wages are very low, and although they have increased considerably, they are still insufficient wages have increased by 22 per cent in the public sector and as much as 300 per cent in the private sector over the last two years.

8. The capacity of the International Tribunal to fulfil its mandate is being significantly enhanced by the addition of the two new courtrooms, but the Tribunal will need resources for additional staff and equipment to carry out the activity.

Although the proposed 15 per cent increase in the MONUC budget was intended to reflect the Mission's additional mandates, it was still far from adequate.

There is no doubt, however, that much remains to be done to achieve not only greater efficiency, but greater effectiveness.

They noted that, even with this inclusion, UNCTAD s budget would still show significant negative growth.

Diphtheria is still present in Latvia despite increasing immunisation.

I continue to be gravely concerned about the increasing number of civilian casualties and serious injuries.

Sexual education is still not adequate, and the fact is that there is the increase of early sexual activities of adolescents, the increase in number of unwanted pregnancies and the increase in rate of infectious diseases.

The United States also believed that more work had to be done to increase the number of parties to the Convention.

The number of women mayors has increased since 1980, but the overall percentage remains very small.

The slow process of increasing the number of women in the Secretariat was still a matter of concern.

Forests cover almost half the land area and the sink capacity is likely to increase despite a greater expected reliance on wood based products and resources.

There is still increasing production of synthetic drugs and ATS in some countries.

The number of women in the labour force had increased considerably even if their total numbers remained low.

Despite the increase imposed on it, however, his country had paid its contributions over the past three years.

Although the country's export base has improved, mainly because of the export of mineral resources, the level of imports remains elevated.

The police remained in the towns as the day went on, as crowds of ethnic Albanian demonstrators grew.

Although women still represent a minority in economic decision making bodies in the private sector, the participation of women employers and self employed women increased between 1991 and 1995 from 14.84 per cent to 18.53 per cent in the case of employers, and from 27.39 per cent to 30.29 per cent in the case of self employed women.

The 4.1 per cent increase was the highest Agency wide although considerably less than the 4.9 per cent increase in the previous reporting period reflecting a relatively high birth rate and the continuing influx of refugee families.

In the meantime, increased ODA aligned with national priorities will still need to be mobilized, particularly by the low income countries of the region

Whether the increase in nursing professionals will translate into better health care in the Philippines remains to be determined.

Because trade and investment agreements and relations remain unfair there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor.

And it's expanding.

For example, these two show great growth in income, absolutely flat happiness curves.

At the same time, reducing poverty requires going beyond the necessary but not sufficient condition of accelerating economic growth.

Additional resources will be required to support the return of a further 64,000 internally displaced persons.

But resistance to reform increases as the United Nations financial crisis persists and United States arrears, in particular, remain unpaid.

Norway welcomed recent commitments to increase ODA and cancel debts however, more progress had to be made towards increasing ODA to the target of 0.7 per cent.

While trafficking in cannabis herb still dominates the global situation with regard to trafficking in cannabis, trafficking in cannabis resin has been increasing and indoor cannabis cultivation continues to increase in many developed countries.

5. Recognizes the importance of accelerating the growth and development prospect of least developed countries, which remain the poorest and most vulnerable segment of the international community, and calls upon development partners to carry on their efforts to increase official development assistance, and their efforts aimed at strengthened debt relief, improved market access and enhanced balance of payments support

Given an increase in the number of planted areas in relation to last year, and considering regional climate trends, the Government of Eritrea expects improved yields of about 350,000 tons, a 235 per cent increase over last year, which still represents only 45 per cent of overall consumption needs in the country.

(b) The increase in workload is accompanied by an ongoing re engineering effort that places a heavy burden on the staff.

But as necessary as this additional financing is, it nevertheless falls far short of what is needed.

These countries deserve increased support from the international community so as to consolidate situations that are still fragile.