translate English to French: His Government welcomed acknowledgement of the principle that all rights — civil, political, economic and social — were interdependent.  It also believed that the international community must seriously address the issue of sanctions imposed unilaterally, often in an arbitrary and unfair way, on certain countries, including Togo, citing a lack of democracy, because such sanctions made the life of the population even more difficult.
Le Togo, qui se réjouit qu'on ait reconnu l'interdépendance de tous les droits, civils et politiques, économiques et sociaux, estime que la communauté internationale devrait se pencher sérieusement sur la question des sanctions infligées unilatéralement, souvent de manière arbitraire et injuste à certains pays (dont le sien) pour des raisons de déficit démocratique, car ces sanctions rendent la vie des peuples encore plus difficile.