November 4, 2022: Eight Resolutions approved by a Majority vote
Friday, 4th November 2022: At the United Nations General Assembly, Russia’s proposal to “counter the glorification of Nazism” was approved by a majority vote after a record vote. 105 countries voted in favor of the resolutions, moved by Russia, in the UN General Assembly. 52 countries voted against the resolutions, and, 15 countries abstained from voting. India voted in support of the proposal, moved by Russia. A total of eight drafts were approved by the committee at the United Nations General Assembly meeting. The drafts, moved by Russia, were about human rights issues ranging from literacy related rights, protection of children from sexual exploitation to crime prevention and criminal justice matters etc. The following were some of the more important resolutions:
- Condemnation of the infringements of the rights of indigenous people,
- Condemnation of the glorification of Nazism,
- Condemnation of the infringements of privacy in the digital age.
The Indian representative on the occasion said that it is in agreement with the consensus on the resolutions, though the concept of indigenous people is not applicable in the context of India.
The committee expressed deep concern about public demonstrations to erect monuments and to glorify the Nazi past, including the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization. The United Nations said in its statement that the representative of the Russian Federation expressed concern over the increase in racist and xenophobic rhetoric and called for deportation of migrants and refugees if they indulged in Islamophobia, Afrophobia and antisemitism.
The representative of Ukraine expressed concern over Moscow’s attempt to use the cloak of counter- neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine. The representative of the United Kingdom added that the proposed resolutions were a part of Moscow’s efforts to justify its aggression against Ukraine by advancing lies and distorted history.