差不多一年前，安理会成员国各国元首签署了《世界首脑会议成果文件》，指出联合国每个会员国有责任保护其公民，如果该国自己无法提供这种保护，国际社会就有责任协助提供保护。联合王国站在努力实现这一目标的最前列。这是安全理事会第一个授权联合国维和行动明确提到这一责任的决议，我们对此感到高兴。确保苏丹公民的安全一直并仍然是苏丹政府的首要责任。在过去几年中，它显然没有这么做。
Almost one year ago, the heads of State of the countries members of the Council signed the World Summit Outcome document, noting the responsibility of each United Nations Member State to protect its citizens and the international community’s responsibility to assist in this if the State could not provide for such protection alone. The United Kingdom was at the forefront of efforts to secure this. We are very pleased that this is the first Security Council resolution mandating a United Nations peacekeeping operation to make an explicit reference to this responsibility. It has always been, and it remains, the primary responsibility of the Government of the Sudan to ensure the security of its own citizens. Over the past few years, it manifestly has not done so.