Dear friends!
Today, November 10 in New York, at the plenary meeting of the Third Committee of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, a major Russian initiative was approved in the world organization - the resolution "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other methods that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, and racial discrimination related to racism."
Based on the voting results, the document was supported by 117 countries; 53 voted against, 9 abstained.
The approval of the decision this year has a special significance considering the 80th anniversary of the judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Action Plan.
A Russian initiative, presented with the support of a wide range of co-authors -.
45 countries from all regions of the world are called to serve as an important international legal instrument to deal with the falsification of history, correcting the results of World War II and attempts to whitewash the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices.
Special attention is paid to the destruction of monuments to fighters against Nazism and attempts to ban symbols representing the Great Victory.
The resolution also emphasizes the inadmissibility of ideologies based on the superiority of certain population groups over others on racial, ethnic or religious grounds. This issue remains particularly relevant in the context of the spread of various forms of intolerance, including Islamophobia, Christianophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Russophobia and anti-Semitism.
Despite the clear significance of the issues raised, during the examination of the initiative, attempts by several Western countries to politicize the debate and replace a substantive conversation about dealing with the glorification of Nazism with opportunistic accusations against the Russian Federation were once again evident.
The position of the overwhelming number of delegations following the results of the vote once again confirmed broad international support for the Russian initiative by the world majority.