Translate the following English sentence to French:
"In view of the fact that no Council representative is able to attend on Wednesday evening, a number of groups - the Group of the European People' s Party, the Group of the Party of European Socialists, the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left - requested that the Council statement on the Cyprus question and Mr Brok' s report on the pre-accession strategy for Cyprus and Malta were dealt with during the joint debate and that these two items plus Mr Swoboda' s report were brought forward in the agenda."
Étant donné que le Conseil ne pourra pas être présent mercredi soir, plusieurs groupes - parti populaire européen, socialistes européens, libéraux, verts, gauche unitaire - ont demandé de traiter en discussion commune la déclaration du Conseil sur la question chypriote et le rapport de M. Brok sur la stratégie de préadhésion pour Chypre et Malte et d'avancer ces deux points, ainsi que le rapport de M. Swoboda, dans l'ordre du jour.