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Council Security dismissed today the creation of a mechanism for monitoring human rights within the UN Mission the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
The incorporation of this function to the tasks of the quota was raised by the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights following the events of last November at Camp Izik Gdeim Saharawi civilians. On that occasion

forces Morocco, which occupies the Western Sahara since 1975 after the withdrawal of former colonial English, attacked a refugee camp with several deaths and the arrests of about 150 residents.
The idea of \u200b\u200badding to the MINURSO to monitor human rights was rejected earlier by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to omit from the report that just discussed the Security Council on the conflict.
In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, the 15 members of this body is merely to emphasize the importance of improving those rights in Western Sahara and the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
And welcome the establishment in Morocco of a national commission called human rights "and the proposed component related to the Western Sahara."
The text was adopted from a draft prepared by the so-called Group of Friends of Western Sahara (USA, France, Spain, UK and Russia) that does not include any African or Arab country, natural regions of the Saharan territory.
Speaking the press, Ambassador of South Africa, Baso Sangqu, lamented the non-insertion mechanism in the Minurso supervisor, but felt that the text adopted by the Council reflects a step forward in the treatment of the conflict.
also emphasized that the document reaffirms the theme of self-determination for the Saharawi people, original and continuing objective of MINURSO since its inception in 1991.
The Security Council also decided to extend for one year the mandate of this task force, composed at present by some 230 troops from 30 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Honduras and Uruguay, in Latin America.
also called on Morocco and the Polisario Front to continue "in good faith and without preconditions," the negotiations held since 2006 under the auspices of the UN.
All "with an eye to achieving a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution that will lead to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara," the resolution.



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