Armenia support Russia-submitted resolution on combating the  glorification of Nazism

ArmInfo. Armenia supported the resolution initiated by Russia in the UN General Assembly on  combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. 

This became known from the publication of the official representative  of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in the Telegram  channel. "The Third Committee of the 79th session of the UN General  Assembly adopted the traditional resolution initiated by Russia on  combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices  that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial  discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance>. 40 countries  co-sponsored it. 116 countries voted "for", 54 voted against, 11  abstained," the Russian diplomat wrote.

She also published a list of countries that spoke out against the  condemnation of racism and for the glorification of Nazism: the  United States, Canada, Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany, France,  Italy, Spain, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria,  Australia, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Cyprus, the  Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, Croatia,  the Czech Republic, Sweden, Japan, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Hungary, Georgia, New Zealand, Iceland, Ireland, Kiribati,  Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Norway, San Marino, North  Macedonia, Monaco, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Republic of  Korea, Palau, Tonga, Fiji, Montenegro. It should be noted that in the  post-Soviet space the resolution was supported by Armenia,  Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan  and Uzbekistan. Of the regional countries, Turkey abstained, and Iran  was absent from the voting at all.