The text sets out different approaches for Ifni, where negotiations with Morocco were requested, and the Sahara then administered by Spain. For the latter, it envisages consultations with the Moroccan and Mauritanian governments and other interested parties.
The resolution develops the call for decolonization made in 1965. It concerns a process to be organized; it does not establish that a vote took place or settle the territorial dispute. Its provisions are also documented in the CJEU Advocate General’s September 2016 opinion.