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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The UN Security Council, in a US-drafted text, called for the parties to engage in negotiations based on an autonomy plan first presented by Morocco to the United Nations in 2007.
58% : The United Nations headquarters building is pictured through a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014.
56% : "We urge all parties to use the coming weeks to come to the table and engage in serious discussions," US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the council after the vote.
53% : The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday stating that genuine autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty could be the most feasible solution to Rabat's 50-year conflict with the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size of Britain, has been the scene of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute since colonial power Spain left in 1975.
53% : The remaining 11 council members voted in favour of the resolution, which also renewed for one year the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Western Sahara, known as MINURSO.
52% : " The Security Council resolution also asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide, within six months, "a strategic review regarding MINURSO's future mandate, taking into account the outcome of the negotiations".
50% : Spain has also backed Rabat's position, along with an increasing number of European states, signalling a shift in EU member states' foreign policy on the issue.
49% : Morocco is seeking a win-win and "face-saving" solution for all the parties to the conflict, King Mohammed VI of Morocco said after the UN vote.
44% : "The final decision on the future cannot, must not, belong to anyone other than the people under colonial domination," Algeria's UN Ambassador Amar Bendjama told the council after the vote.

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