A
few days agp I said “Putin did it!” as a joke.
Some
people, it seems are not joking
US, Canada & Ukraine vote against Russia’s anti-Nazism resolution at UN
UN
General Assembly’s Third Committee passed a Russia-proposed
resolution condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial
of German Nazi war crimes.
The US, Canada and Ukraine were the only
countries to vote against it.
The
resolution was
passed on
Friday by the committee, which is tasked with tackling social and
humanitarian issues and human rights abuses, by 115 votes against
three, with 55 nations abstaining, Tass news agency reported.
The
document voiced concern over the rise of racism-driven crimes around
the world and the influence that parties with extremist agendas are
gaining.
It
called for a universal adoption of the International
Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Many nations
including the US, the UK, China and India, signed the convention but
did not recognize a mechanism resolving individual complaints it
establishes, which makes the convention unenforceable in their
jurisdictions.
The
resolution also decried attempts to whitewash Nazi collaborators by
depicting them as fighters of nationalist resistance movements and
honoring them as such.
It condemned any form of denial of Nazi war crimes, including the Jewish Holocaust.
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