关于基准，我国政府仍然致力于同苏丹政府接触，与之共同努力，以便实现这些基准。然而，正如安理会可能知道的那样，出于技术性原因，双方未能定期举行会议，在该地区关心重振《和平协议》谈判期间尤其如此。但我们现在可靠地获悉，联合政治和安全机制的会议定于9月23日和24日在亚的斯亚贝巴举行。
Regarding the benchmarks, our Government is still committed to engaging the Government of the Sudan to work together with it to achieve the benchmarks. However, as the Council may know, for technical reasons, the two sides have not been able to meet regularly, especially while the region was preoccupied with the revitalized Peace Agreement negotiations. But we are now reliably informed, that a meeting of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism is scheduled to take place on 23 and 24 September in Addis Ababa.