skirt

At times, the United Nations has dealt with those crises successfully. At other times, it has skirted them without actually coming to grips with them.
Par moments, l'ONU a su gérer ces crises avec succès ; à d'autres, elle les a contournées sans vraiment s'y attaquer sérieusement.
This is a key issue, which the Committee has skirted around, when it should have made it the focus of its attention and the goal of its endeavours.
C'est là la question clef que le Comité a esquivée, alors qu'elle aurait dû constituer l'axe de son appréciation et la finalité de sa démarche.
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