languish

Efforts to finalize the draft convention, on the other hand, had languished for some years owing to differences concerning, among other things, exclusion clauses.
Les efforts en vue de finaliser le projet de convention générale, par contre, piétinent depuis plusieurs années sous l'effet de divergences concernant, entre autres, les clauses d'exclusion.
ACJS has been an NGO with consultative status in the United Nations since 1983 but its regular participation in United Nations NGO affairs had languished.
L'ACJS est une organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) dotée du statut consultatif à l'Organisation des Nations Unies depuis 1983, mais qui avait cessé de participer régulièrement aux activités de l'Organisation.
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