Speaker of Russian state Duma Sergey Naryshkin said that the failure of European countries to vote in the United Nations decision condemning the glorification of Nazism, caused surprise and valaisiana Against Ukraine this document is called blasphemy.
at the end of the second decade of November at the meeting of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution " against the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance ". The document was shown by Russia, he was supported by 115 of 193 UN countries. It was opposed by Canada, USA and Ukraine. 55 delegations, such as EU countries, abstained.
" Me, of course, surprised by the position of Directors of the European Union, whose Commissioners abstained from voting on this decision. Who, if not Europeans know about the horrors that brought the Nazis in the mid-twentieth century, and I am sure that representatives of the European Union did not vote as I think the citizens of these States, because the Europeans have always adhered to the values of humanism, " said Naryshkin on the last working day of the week at the meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbj?rn Jagland.
The Russian Speaker called a real danger of a revival of Nazism in the European Union. According to him, about this claim also the discussions and outcomes of the will on the UN decision on combating the glorification of Nazism.
" I personally took it as a sacrilege to a million Ukrainians who lost their lives defending our country, and Europe, and the world from Nazism, " said Naryshkin.
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