Overview
- The resolution passed 11–0 with Russia, China and Pakistan abstaining as Algeria did not take part in the vote.
- It recommends negotiations using Morocco’s 2007 plan, which would create elected legislative, executive and judicial bodies in Western Sahara while Rabat retains defense, foreign affairs and religious authority.
- The Council called on Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania to resume discussions toward a mutually acceptable political solution.
- The mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission MINURSO was extended for another year to support the process.
- Morocco hailed the move as a turning point, the U.S. envoy said it could accelerate regional peace, and Algeria and the Polisario criticized the text as disregarding self-determination via a referendum.