India backs UN resolution to end US embargo on Cuba in 130-17 vote

India backed a UN resolution demanding an end to the US embargo on Cuba, passed 130-17 after a Tuesday clash.
Indian UN counsellor Soumya Nair said such laws hurt other states’ sovereignty, and urged an early end.
She said Cuba is short of over 60% of essential medicines, with food output down by half in five years.
The vote followed a clash in which the US expelled a Cuban diplomat for allegedly touching its envoy.

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