Western Sahara - Anybody On the Same Page? - Robert M. Holley

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At the end of April, the Security Council surprised many observers by renewing the MINURSO mandate for only six months rather than a year, as had been the usual practice over the last decade. That raised a number of questions: Why the change? What did it hope to accomplish?

If the intention was to give the new Personal Envoy a boost by suggesting greater Security Council attention to the issue through a more "urgent" deadline for a review, there is no evidence to date that the shorter fuse has produced any shift in anyone's position on the core questions.

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