在这种背景下，当初应联合国的要求而进驻达尔富尔，并在极为困难的情况下把工作干得非常好的非洲联盟驻苏丹特派团（非盟驻苏特派团）目前正竭力应对——以至于非洲联盟要求将特派团转为联合国行动。该决议回应了这一要求。
Against this backdrop, the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS), which stepped in to Darfur when the United Nations asked it to, and which has done an extremely good job in exceptionally difficult circumstances, is now struggling to cope — so much so that the African Union has called for transition to a United Nations operation. This resolution responds to that call.