Despite its shortcomings, it has functioned and has managed to bring 191 States together around common goals and principles.

Despite its shortcomings, this week's agreement presents us all with an opportunity to breathe new life into our United Nations.

Despite its shortcomings, NPT remained the cornerstone of the global non proliferation regime, which must be consolidated through multilateral action.

Some delegations also expressed support for paragraph (b), while others noted its shortcomings.

E. Shortcomings

Despite some recent shortcomings, the significant role played by the Treaty in preventing proliferation, furthering nuclear disarmament and promoting co operation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy is undeniable.

I am not without my shortcomings, but these shortcomings can easily be amended.

The international community cannot afford to postpone reform. It is our duty to preserve the multilateral system of peace and security an achievement of the international community that, despite its shortcomings, has helped save the planet from another war on a global scale.

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What are the principal shortcomings?

Despite the NPT's shortcomings, the overwhelming majority of non nuclear states fully comply with their Treaty obligations. This constrains the number of nuclear weapon states, thus fulfilling one of the NPT's most important goals.

Canada was aware of its own shortcomings, which it was working to address in an open and transparent fashion.

However, when it comes to implementation, a number of shortcomings have been noted and it is these shortcomings which are considered below.

The European Union commended the Advisory Committee's work on the topic, in particular its identification of the shortcomings of the report.

The shortcomings call for us to change.

The Mission also identified the following shortcomings

Despite the constitutional guarantee, its implementation still is precarious.

Their sponsors failed to see their own shortcomings.

And Ground Zero, despite all its difficulties, it's moving forward.

However, the Secretariat is now facing an unprecedented series of organizational challenges which have exposed shortcomings in the way it conducts its business.

The Security Council and its committees have to inform the general membership regularly on progress achieved and on shortcomings identified in their work.

We are particularly concerned by what we view as grossly inadequate awareness of the shortcomings of the MDG database by its main users.

We will extend a hand, he said, if you are willing to unclench your fist. This statement encapsulated the foreign policy of engagement that he endorsed during his first term an approach that, despite some shortcomings, has a lot of merit.

These shortcomings are now being addressed by the Government.

Although Turkey agrees with the Convention in its general intent, and with most of its provisions, it is unable to become a party to it because of those serious shortcomings.

What is required now is for these impediments or shortcomings to be addressed and the strategy to be invigorated and intensified in all its aspects.

The Department was therefore working vigorously to identify and resolve shortcomings in its security systems, particularly where such improvements would have immediate life saving implications.

In this way, we can make up for all shortcomings.

The League of Arab States remains one obvious choice despite its limitations.

No doubt the consensus was forged in the conviction that the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, still represents the best hope for humankind to solve its problems at the multilateral level.

Lebanon s experience supports this assessment. Despite its long history of political violence, its creative industries are expanding.

Despite its financial difficulties, he hoped that UNRWA would continue to deliver its services to the refugees.

Bulgaria has previously expressed its support for the Secretary General's idea to create a Peacebuilding Commission whose mandate would compensate for existing shortcomings in the current system.

Despite its determination to become self sufficient by adopting plans for restructuring and upgrading, despite its progress on settling conflicts that have long stood in the way of development in numerous countries, and despite its high priority on the world agenda, Africa is lagging far behind in the timetable for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

We acknowledge that major shortcomings still exist which need to be addressed.

If there were shortcomings, Benin was ready and willing to redress them.

Those shortcomings relate to the areas of peaceful uses, cooperation and assistance.

The National Health Policy aims to address the shortcomings of the system.

Lesotho relied on the support of its friends for much needed capacity building in various areas in order to overcome productivity shortcomings and be able to compete internationally.

We, however, continue to believe that the lack of a clear call to prevent terrorists and other unauthorized entities from acquiring these weapons is one of its shortcomings.

OIOS acknowledges the current efforts of the Department to update and improve its guidance system and believes that the correction of those shortcomings should be part of it.

One of the key problems is the lack of awareness among many users of the extent of the shortcomings of the MDG database and the importance of rectifying these shortcomings for effective policy analysis.

And not only that, I am documenting it documenting my own cultural shortcomings.

From the practical point of view, there are many shortcomings in his plan.