S/RES/1978 is a short and straight forward response to the referendum that took place in South Sudan and voted for the transformation of that region into an independent country. In this regard, the main goal of the resolution can be seen as assuring the international community and the interested parties in South Sudan that the United Nations will support the results from the ballot box and that it will assist in implementing those results. The resolution extends the mandate of the mission in Sudan temporarily, until July 9; a time in which we can probably expect a new resolution to be released establishing a new mission on the region, possibly under a different name.
