The officials say they are not convinced that Morocco would ever completely surrender sovereignty over the territory.
The new resolution would detail the price that Iraq must pay in surrendering national sovereignty for its invasion of Kuwait.
But Britain and France are among countries reluctant to surrender sovereignty.
Part of the American resistance lies in an age-old reluctance to surrender sovereignty.
It's perfectly possible to want market access without surrendering sovereignty to the EU.
The Prime Minister said today that she did not have the right to surrender sovereignty to Europe.
So the question isn't whether to surrender national sovereignty.
And so the strongest members, when they worry about surrendering sovereignty, may be worrying for nothing.
He's asked me for an assessment of the European willingness to surrender sovereignty to a world government.
"They keep nationalism alive at the rhetorical level while surrendering sovereignty in real terms," he said of the government.