The resolution, adopted unanimously a few hours after the expiry of the mandate of the peacekeepers, is expanding its presence in the territory until April 30, 2011.

The text highlighted in its preamble “the importance of advancing the human dimension of conflict, to promote transparency and mutual confidence through constructive dialogue.”

It calls on Morocco and the Polisario Front to meet their “obligations” for the United Nations Charter and international law.

The reference to “obligations” of the parties was the consensus formula that finally brought agreement among the fifteen Council members, after a day of almost eight hours of negotiations.

differences that separated the fifteen members of the highest court focused on the Polisario Front”s claim to be included in the new resolution a mechanism for monitoring the human rights situation in the territory, to which Rabat is firmly opposed.

The Group of Friends of Western Sahara (France, USA , Spain, UK and Russia) also refused to include the request of the Polisario, on the grounds that it would be counterproductive to attempts to find a negotiated settlement.

Several non-permanent members body had pushed up the last two days in favor of the proposal by Mexico that the resolution urged the parties to keep in touch with the office of the High Commissioner for UN Human Rights, Navi Pillay.

However, the strict refusal of the French delegation to alter the role of the UN in the territory occupied by Morocco led these countries to desist in order to preserve the unanimity of the Council.

Mexico, Uganda and Nigeria recorded its disagreement with the absence of a mechanism on human rights in the mandate of MINURSO and the way in which he had led the drafting of the resolution by the Group of Friends1000.

“Negotiations are not and can not be the monopoly of a group of countries,” the Mexican ambassador to the UN, Claude Heller, after the vote on the text.

Interventions of these representatives showed that in the background of this mismatch is also the irritation of some countries who feel uncomfortable with what they consider the imposition of the will of the five permanent members (United UU., Russia, France, China and the United Kingdom).

Morocco”s ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Loulichki, expressed satisfaction with the statement adopted by the Security Council, which opinion supports the Moroccan proposal to grant autonomy to the territory occupied since 1975.

It also welcomed that, “despite attempts by some to extend (functions) the mandate of MINURSO, the Council has not followed this path. “

Meanwhile, the Polisario representative Ahmed Boukhari, pointed to Efe that the resolution remains a central axis of the right to self-determination the Saharawi people and reaffirmed the original mandate of the UN mission, which was established to hold a referendum in the former colony, said.

At the same time, lamented that, like last year past, shelved the proposal to include human rights in the functions of MINURSO, which in his view led to the increase after “the Moroccan repression.

” The opposition France”s human rights runs counter to its prestige and credibility, “he said.

In its last report on this conflict, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon also expressed concern about the human rights situation in the territories and in refugee camps in Algeria.

Morocco and the Polisario have been held since 2007 four direct meetings in the town of Manhasset, in outside New York, without having been closer positions.

Alawi The kingdom maintains that the only realistic solution to the conflict is his proposal to grant autonomy to the Sahara, while the Polisario insists on holding a referendum that includes independence among the options.

MINURSO was established in September 1991 after the cease-fire between the two sides in order to monitor the ceasefire and organize a referendum self-determination of the territory of the former Spanish colony.