Morocco celebrates UN Western Sahara vote outcome

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMorocco is celebrating after the UN Security Council failed to renew the mission monitoring the Western Sahara truce, Al Jazeera reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRussia vetoed the American draft, and then the Russian draft got three votes in favour, one against and eleven abstentions. So nobody won.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it a consensus to pause the mission's mandate, with strong participation from the abstaining members.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEleven abstentions. That's eleven people reading the thread and not replying.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe mandate ran out at midnight on October thirty-first, and the royal palace called that a significant development.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt says the issue should leave the Council's agenda.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIn Laayoune, the largest city in the territory, the streets were decorated with Moroccan flags and lights ahead of Unity Day.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Polisario Front, which wants a referendum, called the American text an unprecedented departure from international law. So the lights aren't universally loved.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe mission was created in nineteen ninety-one to hold that referendum.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty-five years later, the palace says its people and equipment should leave in the coming days.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThirty-five years, no referendum, and the mission leaves right on time. I'd call that a completion rate of one hundred percent on the leaving.