Despite Russian veto, US draft reveals growing support for Moroccan autonomy Initiative – The North Africa Post
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I am not going to hide my satisfaction with what happened on October 30 in the United Nations Security Council. Donald Trump’s administration intended to impose autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty as the sole basis for negotiations on Western Sahara. It obtained eleven favourable votes, but Russia’s veto prevented its draft from becoming a resolution. Washington failed to achieve its objective and Morocco did not.
Resolution veto ends UN’s Sahara mission
UNITED NATIONS -- Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution Friday that would have supported Morocco's demand for sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara and ended the U.N.'s 35-year peacekeeping mission, which was charged with helping to prepare a referendum on the future of the mineral-rich territory.
In the UN Security Council, the extension of one of the oldest UN missions fails. Is the conflict over Western Sahara raging again?
Nasser Boutra, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Africa and Moroccans living abroad, stressed that Russia ' s veto against the United States draft resolution on Moroccan Sahara was not a surprise to the Kingdom, stressing that Rabat had not made avoiding it at any cost a basis for its diplomatic movements.
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Diário de CoimbraFor Moscow, the US proposal was very close to Morocco's position, occupying the former Spanish colony.
The diplomatic sequence of 30 October confirms the place taken by the Moroccan plan of autonomy in the positions of several influential partners of the Kingdom.
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