In the four years since the Security Council voted to improve the ratio of women to men dealing with peace and security issues, the greatest progress has been made in UN peacekeeping missions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says. "Today, gender concerns are raised in all new peacekeeping mandates and there are 10 full-time gender adviser positions in 17 peacekeeping operations, including those in: Afghanistan, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro), Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste, as well as in the advance mission in the Sudan."