这些国家、区域和非洲大陆利益攸关方都表示反对在布隆迪派驻大批国际武装人员，并倾向于部署非武装专家和人权观察员。只是这个非武装方案才是我们打算本着开放精神，首先是在严格恪守布隆迪国家主权的神圣原则基础上与你的团队更详尽讨论的，该方案也是非洲联盟、该区域和布隆迪政府的选择。布隆迪赞成庄严载入《联合国宪章》的主权原则。如果联合国部署大批武装警察人员，就无法得到布隆迪政府和人民的同意；这就是我们的红线，皮埃尔·恩库伦齐扎阁下 2016 年 4 月 23 日在布琼布拉举行会谈期间也重申了这一点。
These national, regional and continental stakeholders have all expressed their opposition to a large, international armed presence in Burundi and their preference for the deployment of unarmed experts and human rights observers. It is solely this unarmed option, which is the choice of the African Union, the region and the Government of Burundi, that we intend to discuss with your team in more detail, in a spirit of openness and, above all, with strict adherence to the sacrosanct principle of the national sovereignty of Burundi, as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, to which Burundi subscribes. Should any large, armed police presence be deployed by the United Nations, this will be without the agreement of the Government of Burundi and its people; it constitutes our red line, as reiterated by His Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza during the talks held in Bujumbura on 23 April 2016.