Russia, US veto rival UN Western Sahara resolutions, leaving peacekeeping mission in limbo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : With 155 military personnel, the mission, tasked with organizing a referendum as part of a UN-brokered ceasefire, is set to cost $62 million in the fiscal year that started in June this year, according to a UN Secretary General report.
51% : This disagreement halts the renewal of the UN peacekeeping mission just before its mandate expires.
50% : "UN officials have been telling us this reality for 30 years," he said.
48% : The vetoed US-resolution would have urged the UN refugee agency to conduct a census of the refugees in the camps.
45% : The failed US resolution, which would have extended the mission's mandate for another year, would have removed a reference to a referendum from the mission's name, renaming it the United Nations Mission in Western Sahara, or MINUSO.
43% : Last year, the Security Council dealt a blow to Polisario's ambitions when it backed Morocco's autonomy proposal as a basis for resolving the conflict and asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to submit a review of the peacekeeping mission.
42% : MISSION AT RISK"We stress the fact that the Security Council cannot automatically pre-determine matters relating to sovereignty," Russia's UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia said.
40% : "Unfortunately, some members of this Council have used their veto to preserve the letter 'R' for referendum in the mission's name, even though the United Nations has not been preparing to hold such a vote for decades," he added.
38% : United Nations: Russia and the United States vetoed each other's Western Sahara resolutions at the Security Council on Friday in a dispute over Morocco's autonomy plan that leaves the UN peacekeeping mission there without a renewal a day before its mandate expires.

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