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What I mean is that the Commission could use a form of blackmail - and I am weighing my words here - by tying the funding to strict respect for the environmental obligations it lays down.
Je veux en effet parler de l'éventuel chantage exercé par la Commission - et je pèse mes mots - qui consiste à subordonner l'octroi de financements au strict respect des obligations environnementales qu'elle édicte.
The disproportion between the constantly reiterated demands of certain members of the Security Council for the sanctions to be ruthlessly maintained and their consequences for the Iraqi people is - I am weighing my words - truly terrifying!
La disproportion entre les exigences toujours nouvelles de certains membres du Conseil de sécurité afin de maintenir un embargo impitoyable et les conséquences qui en résultent pour le peuple irakien sont proprement - je pèse mes mots - terrifiantes !
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