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India on Thursday abstained from voting on a draft resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council on holding a debate on the alleged abuse of rights in China’s Xinjiang region. The resolution was rejected as 19 countries in the 47-member council voted against it. Seventeen countries voted in favour, while 11 nations abstained. The United Kingdom, the United States, Turkey and other Western countries had moved the proposal to hold a debate on the alleged abuse of Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, the Associated Press reported. #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on...
