Yet the progress achieved is not nearly enough.
They should certainly acknowledge the progress achieved so far.
Much of the progress achieved over the past century was at stake.
The challenge for Sierra Leone is to make the progress achieved so far permanent.
"The progress achieved has been hard-earned," he wrote in the letter.
Recent attacks cannot dim the progress achieved after two decades of conflict and chaos.
"We are well positioned for growth and are ready to build on the progress achieved last year".
Greek Cypriots, he said, want the world to forget the progress achieved by the Annan Plan in 2004.
For many keen observers, the progress achieved over the past two weeks has been far from negligible.
More remains to be done, but the momentum is more easily sustained if we acknowledge, rather than denigrate, the progress achieved.
This means that despite the progress achieved, we have failed to reach the ones who need it the most – the poorest, the most disadvantaged, the most vulnerable.
