我们这三个保证国成功地做了各方敦促、说服、施压甚至威胁我们要做的事情。告诉我，其他人可能会做到这一点吗？是否有人认为，只需编制我们自己的名单并将它交给德米斯图拉先生就万事大吉了？我想强调的是，这份合法的名单不是小组先前已同意的那份名单，而是叙利亚各方，即大马士革和反对派的代表商定的名单。这正是发生的事情。
We, the three guarantor States, have succeeded in doing what we were urged, persuaded, pressured and even threatened to do. Tell me, could anyone else have done it? Does anyone suppose that it could have been done simply by compiling our own list and handing it to Mr. De Mistura? I want to emphasize that the legitimate list was not going to be one that the small group had given its consent to but rather the list that the representatives of the Syrian parties, both Damascus and the opposition, agreed on, and that is exactly what happened.