In this task, you are given a sentence in Spanish and your task is to translate it into English. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).
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Question: El Parlamento ha contribuido, en gran medida, a mejorar este instrumento.

Answer: Parliament has contributed greatly to improving this instrument.


Question: Dicho sea de paso, es todavía más asombroso que el Consejo no haya intervenido.

Answer: And let me say in passing, it is even more astonishing that the Council allowed it to.


Question: (Se suspendió la sesión a las 11.50 horas para celebrar una sesión solemne con ocasión de una declaración del Sr. Vaclav Havel, Presidente de la República Checa, y se reanudó a las 12.50 horas.)

Answer:
(The sitting was suspended at 11.50 a.m. for a formal sitting on the occasion of an address by Mr Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic and resumed at 12.50 p.m.)