It shows that there is a determination to overcome our differences.

There's a lot of conflict, and the question is, how do we deal with our differences?

Today, as we seek to strengthen and revitalize this organ, we must recognize, despite our differences, the undeniable moral and political authority of its recommendations.

It is hypocritical behavior, trying to maintain the existing conditions highlighting our differences, deepening poverty and crime, which result in their internal political gains.

However, we believe that our disagreements during Review Conference have not in any way weakened our achievements in 1995 and 2000.

That actually wouldn't be such a problem, because if we were really all going to die, we would put aside our differences, we'd spend whatever it took, and we'd find a way to deflect them.

My work also has allowed me to collaborate with women cartoonists from across the world countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Argentina, France and we have sat together and laughed and talked and shared our difficulties.

The success of those negotiations indicate that, in spite of our differences and individual sovereign interests, Member States recognize that we have more things in common than things that divide us and that, for a better world, common interests must enjoy precedence over individual interests.