安理会成员记得，非洲联盟高级别小组在姆贝基总统的领导下审议过该问题，并于2013年提出一项议案，以公民投票的方式来解决阿卜耶伊的地位问题。该议案、包括这种公民投票的模式于2013年得到非洲联盟和平与安全理事会的审议，并随后获得通过。苏丹反对该议案，迄今未采取进一步行动。实际上，2014年，各国的阿卜耶伊事务被转至奥马尔•巴希尔总统和萨尔瓦•基尔总统办公室。此后，尽管过去五年间两位总统偶而会晤，把阿卜耶伊问题纳入这些会议议程的吁请始终遭到双方主要人员的拒绝。
As Council members will recall, the African Union High-level Panel, under the chairmanship of President Mbeki, has considered this question and, in 2013, formulated a proposal to resolve the question of the status of Abyei by means of a referendum. Its proposal, including modalities for such a referendum, was considered and then adopted by the African Union Peace and Security Council in 2013. The Sudan opposed the proposal and no further action has been taken to this day. Indeed, in 2014 the Abyei file in each country was transferred to the offices of President Omar Al-Bashir and President Salva Kiir. Since then, notwithstanding occasional meetings between the Presidents over the past five years, the invitation to include Abyei on the agenda of such meetings has been consistently declined by the two principals.