Endorsement of Russia’s Resolution on Combating Racism at the UN

The UN General Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution titled “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other acts that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” proposed by Russia.

According to AAA, the resolution was passed by 120 votes, with 50 against and 10 abstentions. It is a traditional Russian resolution that is tabled every year. The text was co-sponsored by Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, North Korea, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Vietnam.

The resolution expresses deep concern about the “glorification in any form of the Nazi movement, neo-Nazism and former members of the SS (Waffen SS)”, including through the erection of memorials and public demonstrations in honor of the Nazi past. The document calls on governments to “develop and implement national action plans to eliminate racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in order to ensure strict control over manifestations of Nazism and neo-Nazism

UN resolution against the occupation by the Zionist regime
In the resolution, the UN General Assembly reiterated Syria’s permanent sovereignty over the occupied Golan region as well as the sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories over their natural resources.

According to AAA news agency, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its annual resolution on the matter, entitled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories of Palestine, including Quds and Syrians over the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources” by a majority of 159 votes, with 7 against and 10 abstentions.

The UN General Assembly resolution reiterated the inviolable rights of the Syrian people over the occupied Golan and of the Palestinian people over their natural resources, including land, water and energy resources.

In this resolution, the United Nations General Assembly called upon the occupying Israeli regime to cease the exploitation or destruction of natural resources in the occupied Golan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and to stop all practices harmful to the environment, including the disposal of waste by Israeli settlers.

This resolution considers the movements of the Zionist regime and settlers in the Occupied Territories as actions that have seriously endangered the natural resources of residents, including water, land, the environment and the health of civilians and their facilities.

“The Golan Heights is a very important and strategic region belonging to Syria, which was occupied by the Zionist regime in 1967 and has since become an ideal for Syrians to liberate.

The occupied Golan area is part of the province of al-Quneitra in southwestern Syria, most of which the Zionist regime occupied during the 1967 Six-Day War and illegally annexed part of it on December 14, 1981, but the international community has never recognized this act of aggression.