According to Reuters, the three-day extension was intended mainly to give the UN time to either plan for an organised shutdown of the mission or perhaps an earlier transfer of its mandate to the EU.
Prema pisanju Rojtersa, trodnevno produženje uglavnom ima za cilj da se UN-u pruži dovoljno vremena da počne da planira organizovano povlačenje misije ili da možda ranije preda svoj mandat EU.