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What happened next?Continue in this file · Moroccan Sahara: from the roots of the conflict to the 2026 negotiations
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Moroccan Sahara: Security Council also rejects Russia’s draft

The Security Council failed to adopt Russia’s MINURSO extension draft on October 30, 2026: three members voted in favour, the United States against and eleven abstained, according to matching AP and Hespress reports.

Security Council chamber in New York.
September 6, 2024 archive photograph, not the meeting reported. Jdforrester / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; resized. — Jdforrester / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — resized

The text proposed keeping the mission until October 31, 2027. It fell short of the nine votes required. This second rejection followed Russia’s veto of the US draft, leaving renewal unresolved in these votes.

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