阿拉伯国家联盟、伊斯兰会议组织和苏丹政府均欢迎关于在上星期召开一次安全理事会公开会议的构想。它们希望推迟这样一次会议，只是为了使利益有关者能够出席一次高级别会议。这一立场并未广受欢迎，推迟会议的要求遭到拒绝。安理会未能按要求举行会议，使该决议草案处于不利地位。我国代表团热心于维持安理会的团结和一贯性，所以我们要求推迟对任何决议草案的讨论，直到所有这些方面就绪。然而，我们极为尊重的决议草案的提案国持有一种政治观点，要求迅速通过决议。
The League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Government of the Sudan all welcomed the idea of convening of an open Security Council meeting last week. They desired to postpone such a meeting only to enable the stakeholders to attend at a high level. That position was not well received and the request to postpone the meeting was declined. That put the draft resolution at a disadvantage when the Council failed to meet as requested. My delegation has been keen to preserve the unity and consistency of the Council, and that is why we requested that the discussion on any draft resolution be postponed until all of those elements were in place. However, the draft resolution’s sponsors, for whom we have the utmost respect, had a political point of view requiring its speedy adoption.