联合国证实，已启动结束其在西撒哈拉维和任务的程序，此前俄罗斯和美国在安理会就延长这一已持续35年的部署分别否决了对方的草案决议。
The United Nations confirmed it had begun the process to end its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara after Russia and the United States vetoed each other's draft resolutions on extending the 35-year-old deployment.
联合国秘书长古特雷斯的发言人杜加里克表示，一个由联合国支持人员组成的团队将监督西撒哈拉全民投票特派团（MINURSO）的撤离工作。
Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for Secretary General Antonio Guterres said a team of UN support staff would oversee the withdrawal of the Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
维和人员于1991年部署，旨在监督摩洛哥与寻求独立的“波利萨里奥阵线”之间的停火协议和解决方案。双方为争夺对西撒哈拉的控制权已争执50年。
The peacekeepers were sent in 1991 to oversee a ceasefire and settlement plan between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front. The two sides have disputed control of Western Sahara for 50 years.
摩洛哥声称对这前西班牙殖民地拥有主权；得到阿尔及利亚支持、代表土著撒哈拉维人的“波利萨里奥阵线”分离主义者，则寻求建立一个名为“撒哈拉阿拉伯民主共和国”的独立国家。
Morocco claims sovereignty over the former Spanish colony; Polisario Front separatists, supported by Algeria and who represent the indigenous Sahrawi people, are seeking to establish an independent state called the Sahrawi Republic.
古特雷斯在声明中敦促，应尊重并推动西撒哈拉人民的权利，包括其不可剥夺的自决权。
Guterres urged in the statement that the rights of the people of Western Sahara, including their inalienable right to self-determination, be respected and promoted.
该任务授权于周六到期，此前俄罗斯否决了美国起草的续期决议草案。
The mandate expired on Saturday after Russia vetoed a US draft resolution to renew it.
该草案得到安理会15个成员国中11国的支持，本将把任务延长一年，并将摩洛哥的自治方案置于解决西撒哈拉冲突努力的核心位置。
The text, supported by 11 of the Security Council's 15 members, would have extended the mission for a year and placed Morocco's autonomy plan at the centre of efforts to settle the conflict in Western Sahara.
古特雷斯表示，他对敌对行动升级的风险感到担忧，并呼吁有关各方保持最大限度的克制。
Guterres said he was concerned about the risk of an escalation in hostilities and called on the parties to exercise the utmost restraint.
声明总结道：“联合国随时准备继续支持推进对话、通过秘书长西撒哈拉问题个人特使德米斯图拉实现冲突和平解决的努力。”
“The United Nations remains ready to continue supporting efforts to advance dialogue and achieve a peaceful settlement of the conflict through the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan de Mistura,” the statement concluded.
俄罗斯否决了该草案决议，批评其所谓的“单边做法”，并提议按原有条款续期该任务授权。
Russia blocked the draft resolution, criticising what it called a “unilateral approach”, and proposed renewing the mission's mandate on the same terms as before.
“我们强调，安理会不能自动预先裁定涉及主权的事项，”俄罗斯常驻联合国代表瓦西里·涅边齐亚说。
"We stress the fact that the Security Council cannot automatically pre-determine matters relating to sovereignty," Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said.
“安理会绝不能为这种单方面的做法背书。因此我们被迫否决了该草案的通过。”随后美国否决了俄罗斯的提案，支持美国决议的国家则投了弃权票。
"The Security Council must not give a blessing to such a one-sided approach. Therefore we were compelled to block the adoption of the draft." The US then vetoed the Russian proposal, and the countries that supported the American resolution abstained.
“本理事会一些成员动用否决权，是为了保留字母‘R’——即全民公投——以及联合国几十年来甚至都未准备举行的那项投票的名称，”美国大使迈克·沃尔茨说。法国代表热罗姆·博纳方谴责“俄罗斯的阻挠”。
"Some members of this council have used their veto to preserve the letter 'R' – for the referendum – and the name that the United Nations hasn't even been preparing to hold for decades," said US Ambassador Mike Waltz. The representative of France, Jerome Bonnafont, denounced "Russia's obstruction".
欧盟支持摩洛哥关于西撒哈拉的自治方案，并着眼建立新伙伴关系 摩洛哥王室办公厅欢迎维和任务授权不予续期。
EU backs Morocco autonomy plan for Western Sahara and eyes new partnership Morocco's Royal Cabinet welcomed the non-renewal of the peacekeeping mandate.
阿尔及利亚常驻联合国代表阿马尔·本杰马感谢俄罗斯“以及所有选择不与这种赤裸裸的不公为伍的国家”。
Algeria's representative to the UN, Amar Bendjama, thanked Russia "as well as all the countries that chose not to be associated with such a blatant injustice".
本杰马表示，阿尔及利亚将继续推动“一项保障撒哈拉维人民自决权的解决方案”。
Bendjama said that Algeria would continue to promote "a solution that guarantees the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination".
波利萨里奥阵线驻纽约代表西迪·奥马尔也对美国决议被否决表示“满意”。
The Polisario Front's representative in New York, Sidi Omar, also expressed his "satisfaction" following the rejection of the US resolution.
西撒哈拉直到1975年仍是西班牙殖民地，目前主要由摩洛哥控制，联合国将其视为非自治领土。
Western Sahara, a Spanish colony until 1975, is controlled largely by Morocco and is considered by the UN to be a non-self-governing territory.