It makes no difference to me whether he joins us or not.

The decision to marry or not is a personal one and should be free to couples.

Still in Egypt, Zeinobia laments Egypt's role (or lack of) in dealing with the crisis.

There is no truth to the matter of whether or not it is wrong for you to hit the child.

It is alleged that in these instances, judges not only have the power to determine the extent of punishment but also to decide whether to punish the offender at all.

The commitments we make will determine in large part whether or not the Millennium Development Goals are attained.

Where ill treatment was alleged, information was requested from the Governments, which might or might not choose to respond.

As long as the scope of the treaty has not been defined, no final answer is possible as to whether the treaty is verifiable or not.

Bishop of Finland No historical source remains that would confirm the existence of a bishop named Henry in Finland.

Under Chapter 34 a, section 5 of the Penal Code, the financing of terrorism is punishable irrespective of whether the terrorist offence is committed or not.

Indeed, according to modern development models of finance, whether or not a physical center of finance exists is no longer a meaningful issue.

The draft convention naturally, logically and successfully gives the parties to the contract the freedom to choose to apply all, some or none of the provisions of the convention.

But if it goes too fast, the political cost could be substantial and irreversible. Politicians will push for more control and probably get it, Maastricht treaty or no Maastricht treaty.

And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.

The problem with the current discourse on Iran has little to do with whether or not engagement is the correct policy.

Yes, the US might enter a small recession the odds are roughly 50 50 of that happening.

Ms. Hampson noted that the concept of equitable sharing encompassed both the sharing of benefits as well as participation in the decision making on whether exploitation of natural resources was possible.

However, CPC sets no time limit within which the Public Prosecutor must decide whether to request a formal judicial investigation.

More overt, the burden of proving that a practice is safe should not be placed on the public that would be harmed, but rather on the industry that stands to profit.

To make this distinction, an algorithm was developed by the Statistics Division based on whether an international agency considered a country policy relevant for its statistical work or not.

They were not concerned with legalisms, about whether, technically, the Geneva conventions did or did not apply. They were concerned about basic canons of human rights.

Before initiating sexual activities, partners may discuss what activities they will and will not engage in, and what precautions they will take.

Such awareness is an essential prerequisite for effective remedies, and without effective remedies we will not be able to assess the extent of progress, or the lack of it, towards the realization of the Goals.

We are encouraged to learn about the broad range of internal reform measures, some of which are long overdue but better late than never that the Secretary General is planning to implement.

I want to devote my talk today to the act of speaking itself, and how the act of speaking or not speaking is tied so indelibly to one's identity as to force the birth of a new person when it is taken away.

The necessity for an opt in or opt out declaration by the host State should be carefully considered because it could create an unnecessary bottleneck in the implementation of the protocol.

However, some of those other policy goals listed in the Model Law seemed to be outdated and the Working Group could consider at a later stage the desirability or otherwise of retaining them.

The applicant argued that the Boxing Authority had provided a service in considering whether or not to grant her registration, but, because of her sex, the applicant had been treated less favourably than if she had been a man.

Iraq s draft constitution will probably be approved in the referendum to be held on October 15.

It s just that with all due respect (or not) all of us regular people in Jerusalem are going to be mighty peeved as this Wednesday through Friday we sit in hours of traffic, arrive to work late and endure loud caravan sirens on the residential streets.

Her delegation wished to know what impact the proposed reduction would have, if any, on that crucial aspect of the Mission's mandate and what the rationale for the recommendation was, given that savings of that nature would normally be reflected in the context of the performance report.

Irving Kristol, sometime editor of the magazine The Public Interest and one of the intellectual midwives of this idea, later wrote that he was interested not in whether it was true, but in whether it was useful.

This case demonstrates that what makes a species is not only its descent, but also occurs to a population in the course of evolution, how it adapts, and how this affects its reproductive isolation (or lack thereof) from sister taxa.

And perhaps above all, to encourage a sensitivity about so that because people have this Charter, whatever their beliefs or lack of them, they feel empowered to challenge uncompassionate speech, disdainful remarks from their religious leaders, their political leaders, from the captains of industry.

And for the purposes of this talk, I wanted to isolate just a part of a project that's even a part of a project that touches a little bit on this theme of architectural special effects, and it happens to be our current obsession, and it plays a little bit with the purging and adding of distraction.

The EU ETS s exclusion of carbon credits from forestry projects will remain in force at least until 2008, with the question of whether to include them subsequently set to be revisited next year.

Issues that arose in the truth and reconciliation commissions that were studied included the question of whether to publish the names of perpetrators, difficulties in assessing the functions of the commissions, and challenges in combating the public perception of impunity of perpetrators of human rights violations.

Sources differ as to whether he was present at Pope Urban II's famous Council of Clermont in 1095 but it is certain that he was one of the preachers of the crusade in France afterward, and his own experience may have helped to give fire to the Crusading cause.

However, as the war was ending with the Entente victory looking certain, and as the world was getting ready for the global peace conference to divide up the territory of the soon to be defeated Triple Alliance countries, Italians became uncertain whether the terms of the secret London Treaty would be respected.

Of course, as we now know, WMD were never found, and, worse, evidence came to light showing that Blair was aware that the Bush administration was committed to regime change, regardless of their existence.

The choice of whether or not to have children and information on the means of avoiding transmitting the disease to an unborn child or a newborn infant make women the focus of intense scrutiny pregnancy and childcare are areas around which multiple stigmas of family, community and health care converge.