United Nations Security Council Resolution 1754

Resolution 1754 of the UN Security Council is a resolution on the situation in Western Sahara, adopted unanimously on 30 April 2007 at its 5669 session., The United Nations Security Council. With Resolution Morocco and the Polisario Front were invited to take mutual negotiations without preconditions. In addition, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( MINURSO ) has been extended until 31 October 2007.

The Security Council calls with the resolution, all previous resolutions on the problem in memory and expressed his support for the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon and his Personal Envoy of. He stressed his determination to both sides to help in solving the problem and called for fully cooperate with the United Nations.

Taking into account the report of the UN Secretary-General on 13 April 2007, the Security Council decided

According to the report of the UN Secretary-General had Muhammad Abdelaziz, Secretary General of the Polisario, transmitted a document on 8 March 2007 to Ban Ki -moon, in which the issue of Western Sahara has been described as one of decolonization and that is why a referendum would be held. In a note dated 19 March 2007 the President of Algeria had informed the UN Secretary-General that the United Nations would have to fulfill the obligation to the people of Western Sahara, complete the Dekolonialisierungsprozess with a referendum. The personal representative of the Secretary General, Peter van Walsum had, Ban Ki -moon noted that the Security Council has accepted the recommendations of the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has neither rejected nor accepted at his final decision on the Western Sahara on 31 October 2006, but it simply failed to act in this regard. According to van Walsums there are only two options, namely an indefinite continuation of the arrest or negotiations without preconditions between the two sides regarding the Western Sahara. The neighboring countries Mauritania and Algeria should be invited to participate in these negotiations, and with respect to which they affected individual questions belongs.

Despite the unanimous adoption of resolution has criticized the text before the vote, the representative of South Africa; this was sent to Council members less than 24 hours before the vote, leaving little time to an improvement of the text was possible, its formulation is regarded by his country in two points as not balanced.

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