achopper

Mais, cela ne restera que de vaines paroles si nous continuons à nous achopper à un pourcentage, car les comptes ne cadreront pas avec toutes les priorités mentionnées.
But this will remain nothing more than words if we carry on with the straitjacket of a percentage, because the accounts will not square with all the priorities that have been mentioned.
M. Baum (Rapporteur spécial sur la situation des droits de l'homme au Soudan) estime qu'il conviendrait de trouver une définition commune du droit au développement dans une autre enceinte, à Genève, afin de ne pas avoir à achopper chaque année sur la question.
Mr. Baum (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan) said that a common definition of the right to development needed to be worked out in another forum, in Geneva, so that the issue would not have to be revisited each year.
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