UN General Assembly adopts Russian Federation resolution on combating neo-Nazism

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance", introduced by Russia. This was reported on December 17 in the Russian post mission to the UN.

The document was supported by the majority of countries - 119 out of 182. Fifty-three states opposed, among them the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan, another 10 countries abstained.

"The states voting in favor of the resolution support efforts against the denial of our common history, against Nazism, against racist and xenophobic rhetoric, against manifestations of Islamophobia, Christianophobia, Afrophobia and anti-Semitism. The fight against this evil is one of the most important tasks of the UN, which was created as a response to the horrors and crimes of Nazism and fascism," said Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Maria Zabolotskaya.

According to her, those who voted against it "openly opposed international efforts to combat aggressive manifestations of racism, xenophobia and Nazism," despite the fact that they cover themselves with freedom of assembly and speech.

In addition, Zabolotskaya singled out the 4th operative paragraph, which Russia voted against, because it seeks to change the nature of the project "from thematic to country-specific." She called the amendment "the fruit of unscrupulous attempts to undermine the Organization's efforts to combat Nazism and discrimination." As Zabolotskaya emphasized, this initiative belongs to "a well-known bloc of countries".

Earlier, on November 11, a committee of the UN General Assembly adopted a Russian resolution to combat the glorification of Nazism. It was co-sponsored by dozens of states, including Armenia, Belarus, China, Mali, DPRK, Serbia and South Africa. The document contains a call to prevent the distortion of historical truth and to reject all forms of racial discrimination.

Before that, on September 11, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a report on the glorification of Nazism among 40 countries, which included Ukraine. Then Zakharova appealed to international organizations with a request not to turn a blind eye to the crimes committed by Ukraine on the territory of the Russian Federation and to give them an appropriate assessment.

Later, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted the absence of a Western reaction to the report. According to the diplomat, the West will give a reaction to the report when journalists ask about it. However, in the conditions of persecution, application of the culture of abolition and mass arrests, such a development is practically impossible.