UN mission in Western Sahara blocked: "The right to self-determination is at stake"
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The UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, has been blocked for 35 years. Professor María López Belloso warns that the stakes go beyond the mission itself: "What is at stake is not only the continuity of a mission deployed 35 years ago, but the very meaning of the right to self-determination and the ability of the United Nations to guarantee it."