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Washington makes final calculations ahead of UN vote on Western Sahara

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The Trump administration is weighing several options for MINURSO, with the upcoming UN vote on 31 October. Massad Boulos and Staffan de Mistura are seeking to extract as much progress as possible from negotiations before then, with little to show so far.

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