On the adoption of the Russian resolution on the fight against the glorification of Nazism in the UN General Assembly.
On November 10 in New York, at the meeting of the third committee of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, at the initiative of Russia, a resolution was passed "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other methods that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related xenophobia."
The document was written in collaboration with 45 countries: Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, Gabon, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Kyrgyzstan, China, Cuba, North Korea, Namibia, Namibia, Nigeria, Namibia, Nigeria, Congo, Laos Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and South Africa.
117 countries voted in favor of its adoption, 53 delegations were against, 9 abstained. This demonstrates the consistently broad support for the key Russian initiative at the UN by the global community.
The approval of the decision has special significance in the 80th anniversary of the end of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg against the highest officials of the Third Reich, as well as in the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action, the final document of the World Conference against Racism.
In the resolution, the UN General Assembly expressed deep concern about the glorification in any form of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen-SS, including through the construction of monuments and memorials, as well as public demonstrations glorifying the Nazi past and neo-Nazism.