{"id":15475,"date":"2026-10-31T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/?p=15475"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:47:26","slug":"somalia-abstained-westren-sahara-resulution-vote-at-unsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/?p=15475","title":{"rendered":"Somalia abstained Westren Sahara resulution vote at UNSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sabti 31 Oct 2026 {CBB}<\/strong>The Security Council votes on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) presented by the United States, during the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning Western Sahara.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution received 11 votes in favour, 1 against (Russian Federation) and 3 abstentions (China, Pakistan and Somalia). The resolution was not adopted due to the veto.<\/p>\n<p>MINURSO mandate expires on October 31 unless Security Council agrees last-minute extension<\/p>\n<p>US draft would cut mission\u2019s military component and drop referendum from its name mission has 155 military personnel and costs $62 million this fiscal year, UN report says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution on Western Sahara at the Security Council on \u200bFriday, leaving the UN peacekeeping mission there without a renewed mandate just a day before it expires.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The resolution would have extended the mission for another year while \u200ccementing Morocco\u2019s autonomy plan as the only basis for talks to settle the half-century-old conflict and scaling back its military component.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabti 31 Oct 2026 {CBB}The Security Council votes on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) presented by the United States, during the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning Western Sahara. The resolution received 11 votes in favour, 1 against (Russian Federation) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15477,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions\/15477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiobaayiyobakool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}