The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution presented by Russia entitled “Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. It has been reported TASS.
According to the agency’s reporter, 120 countries voted in favor of the resolution, 50 countries voted against it, and 10 abstained.
The document was co-authored by Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and South Africa. This decision is submitted for consideration by Russia every year.
The text raises concerns about any form of glorification of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism, and former members of the Waffen SS. The document also calls for “the development and implementation of national action plans to eradicate racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”.
Former Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev declarationBy refusing to condemn the glorification of racism and Nazism, the United States and its allies “provoked the peoples” and “pushed the world into a global war”.
In November, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Grigory Lukyantsev, declarationWestern countries are trying to force Moscow to withdraw the text from a vote by introducing an amendment to the UN resolution on the fight against the glorification of Nazism by Russia, which condemns special military action in Ukraine.