The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved a Russian resolution on the fight against the glorification of Nazism, a correspondent of our agency reported.
The resolution "combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the exacerbation of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" was supported by 117 countries, while 9 others, including Switzerland and Turkey, abstained.
53 countries opposed it, including Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the United States, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.