TASK DEFINITION: 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).
PROBLEM: ¿Queremos en serio responder a la aspiración de nuestros pueblos?

SOLUTION: Do we seriously want to respond to the hopes of our peoples?

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

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

PROBLEM: Un costoso procedimiento de conciliación implica un retraso innecesario del que el medio ambiente sufrirá las consecuencias.

SOLUTION:
A laborious conciliation procedure would entail an unnecessary delay, at the expense of the environment.