translate English to French: It is, after all, the highest seat of learning - if I may put it thus - of the branch of Orthodoxy centred on Constantinople, which does in fact exist throughout the world; given that respect for the rights of minorities has been enshrined in treaties, the way in which it has been treated is unacceptable.
C'est tout de même le plus grand havre de culture, si on veut, de la conception byzantine de l'orthodoxie, une conception mondialement répandue. De plus, c'est inadmissible sur le plan du respect reconnu des droits des minorités.