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Ukraine is against the fight against the glorification of Nazism. Photo: flickr.com
The UN General Assembly at a meeting on December 16 adopted a Russian draft resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism, which was approved by the General Assembly committee in November. 130 countries voted in favor of the document, the United States and Ukraine traditionally voted against. 51 states, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, France and Turkey, abstained.
TASS reports.
The resolution calls on countries to “eliminate all forms of racial discrimination by all appropriate means, including, if circumstances so require, by law.”
The document expresses deep concern about the glorification in any form of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization. We are talking about the announcement or attempts to declare the members of this organization and those who collaborated with the Nazi movement and committed war crimes, participants in the national liberation movements.
The authors of the document are alarmed by the increasing number of attempts and cases of desecration or destruction of monuments erected in honor of those who fought against Nazism during World War II, as well as by the exhumation or illegal transfer of their remains.
The resolution also conveyed the General Assembly’s concern over the use of information technology, the Internet, and social media by neo-Nazi groups to spread hateful ideas and recruit new members in different countries.
The General Assembly recommended that appropriate concrete measures be taken to avoid the review of the results of the Second World War and the denial of the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the Second World War.
As “Strana” wrote, last year the situation was the same: the UN adopted a draft resolution against the glorification of Nazism, which was not supported by Ukraine and the United States. The same two countries did not vote for the 2019 resolution itself.
