SAMBEK (Rostov region), 13 Aug The West openly encourages neo-Nazi sentiments in Ukraine and the Baltics, silently watches how the infection spreads, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Every year the Russian Federation submits to the UN General Assembly a resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism. In December 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted it by a majority vote, Ukraine and the United States were against it. «In modern conditions, when they are trying to rewrite history. The Baltic states are silently watching how this infection grows, «Lavrov said during a lecture» Civil society and the state on the protection of historical truth, values and sovereignty. » «Unfortunately, our Western world, the entire collective West abstains annually in voting on the resolution we introduce — on the inadmissibility of the glorification of Nazism. The entire West abstains shamefacedly, everyone else votes for, with the exception of the United States and Ukraine, which vote against.» — added the minister.
Zakharova was surprised by the statement of the French Foreign Ministry on neo-Nazism in Ukraine Russia hopes that the United States and Ukraine, opposing the annual UN General Assembly resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism, will reconsider their position, this statement was earlier made by the Russian Embassy in Washington. The resolution recommends that countries take appropriate concrete measures, «including in the legislative and educational fields, in accordance with their international human rights obligations, in order to prevent the reversal of the outcome of World War II and the denial of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed During the Second World War». The authors of the document strongly condemn incidents related to the glorification and propaganda of Nazism, in particular, the application of graffiti and drawings of pro-Nazi content, including on monuments to the victims of World War II. The resolution urges states to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination by all means, including if circumstances require it, by law. In addition, the document condemns the use of educational materials, as well as rhetoric in the course of education, promoting racism, discrimination, hatred and violence based on ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief.
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