translate English to French: I emphasize, honourable senators, that it was not the people within our government who were saying this but, rather, outside experts who had also reported this fact to the former government.
Je veux souligner, honorables senateurs, que ce ne sont pas des gens de notre gouvernement qui ont tenu ces propos, mais ´ plutot des experts de l’exterieur qui avaient dit la meme chose au ˆ ˆ ´ ´ gouvernement precedent.