No U.N. rights monitoring in U.S. draft on Western Sahara mission

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon talks to the media after meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (unseen) at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday prepared a draft resolution that would renew the U.N. mission in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, but it did not ask for sustained U.N. human rights monitoring as demanded by rights advocates, diplomats said.

Last week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon renewed his appeals for sustained human rights monitoring in the North African Western Sahara region and warned against unfair exploitation of the region's natural resources.