{"id":51810,"date":"2016-02-06T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51810"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:49:13","slug":"us-canada-ukraine-reject-un-resolution-condemning-glorification-of-nazism-moscow-bewildered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/06\/us-canada-ukraine-reject-un-resolution-condemning-glorification-of-nazism-moscow-bewildered\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada, Ukraine reject UN resolution condemning glorification of Nazism; Moscow \u2018bewildered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A UN General Assembly committee has passed a resolution combating glorification of Nazism,\u201d with 126 countries voicing their support. Meanwhile, the US, Ukraine and Canada voted against,\u201d raising eyebrows. Moscow has called the decision regrettable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/ga\/search\/view_doc.asp?symbol=A\/C.3\/68\/L.65\">resolution<\/a>, which was initially proposed by Russia and co-authored by 52 states, including Brazil, China, India, and Kazakhstan, deals with measures to fight the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other practices that facilitate the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/258557-ukraine-nationalists-attack-vday\/\">READ MORE: Ukrainian nationalists assault women &amp; elderly in war on Soviet-era Victory Day symbols<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>It condemns any denial of the Holocaust, as well as any form of glorification of the Nazi movement, including honoring former members of the Waffen SS organization. The document also expresses concern over the installation of memorials related to Nazism and\u00a0<em>unending attempts to desecrate or destroy the monuments to those who fought against Nazism during World War II.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The vote was held at the UN General Assembly\u2019s so-called Third Committee on social, humanitarian and cultural issues. The full General Assembly is scheduled to vote on the resolution later, during the 70th session.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/316518-bbc-wwii-rapist-monument\/\">READ MORE: Russian social media seethes as BBC describes Soviet WWII monument as &#8216;memorial to unknown rapist&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A total of 126 member-states supported the resolution, while four countries \u2014 the US, Canada, Palau, and Ukraine \u2013 voted against it. Another 53 countries, including the European Union nations and NATO members abstained from the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The four votes against the resolution raised questions, with Russia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid.ru\/foreign_policy\/news\/-\/asset_publisher\/cKNonkJE02Bw\/content\/id\/1945065\">stating<\/a>\u00a0that it finds the decision of those countries to reject the resolution<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>bewildering\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>regrettable.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/207899-un-anti-nazism-resolution\/\">READ MORE: US, Canada &amp; Ukraine vote against Russia\u2019s anti-Nazism resolution at UN<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, 115 countries voted in support of a similar resolution, with three countries voting against \u2013 the US, Canada, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/politics\/official-word\/254805-sergey-ivanov-victory-day\/\">READ MORE: West rewrites history to alienate Russia \u2013 Kremlin administration head<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT A UN General Assembly committee has passed a resolution combating glorification of Nazism,\u201d with 126 countries voicing their support. Meanwhile, the US, Ukraine and Canada voted against,\u201d raising eyebrows. Moscow has called the decision regrettable.\u201d The\u00a0resolution, which was initially proposed by Russia and co-authored by 52 states, including Brazil, China, India, and Kazakhstan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}