The resolution was supported by 121 countries and abstained by 53
The United States and Ukraine have once again become the only countries that were against the Russian resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism and neo-Nazism adopted by the UN General Assembly.
Abstentions included a number of European countries, including Germany, France, Belgium, as well as Eastern European countries Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Only the United States and Ukraine voted against. The resolution was eventually adopted.
Speaking before the voting on the resolution, Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Deputy Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights Grigory Lukyantsev, noted that “the adoption of this resolution with the broadest possible support of UN member states will make a real contribution to the eradication of racism and racial discrimination”.
The Russian diplomat said that the resolution emphasizes the inadmissibility of “the glorification of those involved in the crimes of Nazism, including the whitewashing of former members of the SS organization, including Waffen SS units, recognized as criminal by the Nuremberg Tribunal.”
“It is also deeply disturbing that those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition or collaborated with the Nazis are increasingly being elevated to the rank of national heroes and heroes of national liberation movements. And this is happening in countries that survived Nazi occupation during the Second World War, whose heroic peoples made a significant contribution to the defeat of Nazism.”
US and Ukraine do not support Russia’s resolution on combating neo-Nazism
