Translate the following English sentence to French:
"I know from my Committee on Budgets role that Commissioner Patten has been pursuing various methods of removing some of the huge backlog of outstanding payments within the field of external relations."
Je sais, pour faire partie de la commission des budgets, que le Commissaire Patten a mis en uvre différentes méthodes d'élimination de l'immense arriéré existant dans le domaine des relations extérieures.