我们原希望对这个敏感问题采取不同的处理办法。在通过一项会影响到苏丹这个联合国会员国的主权的决议之前，我们应当适当顾及众多方面的问题以及具体的国际惯例基本原则。我们本应该在政治上作出更多的努力，以便创造条件，使苏丹能自愿同意扩大联合国部队的任务规定以及增加其兵力，并将其部署到我们知道处于紧张状态的达尔富尔区。
For our part, we would have preferred a different approach to this sensitive issue. Due regard should have been taken of the numerous aspects and underlying concrete principles of international practice before adopting a resolution that will have a bearing on the sovereignty of the Sudan, a Member State of the United Nations. More efforts should have been made on the political front to prepare the ground for Sudan’s voluntary consent to expanding the mandate of United Nations forces and increasing their strength and deploying them to Darfur, a region we know is fraught with tension.