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UN votes overwhelmingly against U.S embargo on Cuba

By Xinhua | Nov. 3, 2023

**The voting during the 10th Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on October 27, 2023.** [Xinhua]

The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States' economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960.

Titled "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," the resolution put forward each year against the embargo garnered support from 187 states, with only the United States and Israel casting against and Ukraine abstaining.

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