UNGA adopts resolution on Syria, India abstains

Update: 2010-09-15 00:00 GMT

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 (PTI): The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a Saudi-drafted resolution on Syria that denounced the escalating violence in the country and demanded a political transition, a voting in which India was among 31 nations that abstained.

The symbolic UN General Assembly resolution, which expressed "grave concern" at the escalating violence in Syria, got 133 votes in favour in the 193-member body yesterday.

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