Thus, the legitimacy of Israel s right to exist remains an open question. Indeed, never before has the question of legitimacy been so fundamental to a conflict between nations.

Whether these efforts will succeed in putting biomedical research on a more sustainable footing remains an open question. This could still turn out to be biology s century.

But exactly what would replace the dollar under such circumstances remains an open question. After all, a loss of computer records would make the euro equally suspect.

Thus the whole question remains as yet unsettled.

Turkey is now, finally, negotiating with the European Commission the terms of its possible membership in the European Union. But whether possible becomes eventual remains very much an open question.

The question remains What happens when the music stops?

The Government's door remains open to negotiation so long as the agreement on cessation of hostilities remains accepted.

In order to build national consensus, the draft remains open for debate.

The question, though, remains What happens next? Lee Kuan Yew dealt with the question of succession by deferring it.

In other contexts the principle is open to serious question.

With respect to the third question, much remains still to be done.

But the question remains Should capital punishment be on the books at all?

The European Union market remains the most open, and the most important, for developing country exports globally.

The crucial question here remains What would the alternative weapon be against the area targets mentioned?

Nevertheless, the question of whether data should be imputed to the extent that it is remains.

The fact remains that the Council today did not settle the question of accountability in Darfur.

The question remains as to what role the former president, Charles Taylor, played in the ongoing recruitments.

On 12 January, the Security Council held an open debate on the question concerning Haiti.

As has often been said in this room, the five Ambassadors' proposal remains open to all suggestions or amendments.

The question remains, however, whether the adoption of an optional protocol to the Covenant would lead to duplication.

These procedures have to change otherwise, the integrity of consensus decisions will be open to question.

Although the prize money was generous, whether world snooker can really recognize the international position of the China Open remains questionable.

The British Government remains open to discussions regarding arrangements governing the British Indian Ocean Territory or the future of the Territory.

Whether or not Napoleon was great, the question remains whether any leader could merit that description. And if so, who?

The fundamental question today is who monitors opaque loans, whether of the sub prime or any other variety. Traditionally, the answer was banks in the securitized world, it remains a question.

Item 108, Measures to eliminate international terrorism , remains open, and the report on that item will be introduced at a later date.

The question remains whether Bashar understands that peace is not only about regaining the Golan, but also about normalization of relations with Israel, which his father was reluctant to allow. The old Assad feared that open borders and the end of the politics of conflict might erode his one party system.

It remains for the Commission to decide on the question of whether this class of treaty should be accorded a special status.

Whether such rules are legal texts within the meaning of article 5 of the Model Law is open to question.

My delegation would like to commend Benin for holding this open debate on the question of children and armed conflict.

When the Commission discussed its future work, it left open the question of what form that future work might take.

As we noted last year during the open debate on this topic, sexual and gender based violence remains alarmingly pervasive in conflict affected areas.

CAIRO Last year s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long awaited new era. But what that new era will look like remains very much an open question, given the many challenges that the region s countries still face.

Subject to paragraph 9 below, the meetings of the Committee shall be open to Parties and open closed to the public unless the Committee and the Party whose compliance is in question agree otherwise.

However, we must recognize that the question of development is far from being resolved, and international cooperation for development remains a long uphill journey.

CAIRO Last year s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long awaited new era. 160 But what that new era will look like remains very much an open question, given the many challenges that the region s countries still face.

But the question remains Come September 8, can Navalny and his supporters change Russia s political culture of fear, or was de Maistre right after all?

Katrina is thus likely to be a footnote in the history of the Bush presidency. The real question for Bush s role in history remains Iraq.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) remains without question the cornerstone for the achievement of those objectives under the present circumstances.

So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?

And it's open to us to introduce a new way of doing that, and that's what I'll talk about for 10 minutes, or whatever the time remains.

COPENHAGEN Public skepticism about global warming may be growing, but the scientific consensus is as solid as ever man made climate change is real, and we ignore it at our peril. But if that issue is settled (and it should be), there is an equally large and important question that remains wide open what should we do about it?

First, turnout is crucial who has voted and who has not. The second question is whether there remains any systematic, potentially violent opposition to the outcome.

The question of Palestine and the Arab Israeli conflict remains at the core of the regional tensions and peace and security concerns in the Middle East.

Germany remains open to other compromise solutions if they command consensus, for example, the efforts of the Netherlands CD presidency contained in the so called food for thought paper.