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India Calls for End to Economic Embargoes and Sanctions at UN

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United Nations, July 11 (IANS) India has called for an end to economic embargoes and sanctions, assailing them as barriers to economic and social development, and infringements on the sovereignty of nations.“As the world’s largest democracy, India regards multilateralism as an article of faith”, Eldos Mathew Punnoose, a counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission, told the General Assembly on Friday.Embargoes and sanctions “impede the realisation of human rights, including the rights to deve…