UNITED NATIONS, November 11. /TASS/. The UN General Assembly's Third Committee is set to vote on Monday on a Russian-proposed draft resolution titled Combating the Glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism, and Other Practices That Contribute to Fueling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, according to the organization's schedule.

Belarus and Turkmenistan co-authored the draft resolution, which has been traditionally introduced by Russia and adopted annually since 2005. Comprising 74 paragraphs, the document strongly condemns incidents involving the glorification and propaganda of Nazism, welcomes efforts to preserve historical accuracy, and recommends measures to prevent the denial of crimes against humanity and the revision of World War II's history and outcomes. The draft also condemns "the use in educational settings of educational material and rhetoric that promulgate racism, discrimination, hatred and violence on the basis of ethnic origin, nationality, religion or belief."

Last year, 112 countries voted in favor of the draft resolution in the committee, and during the final General Assembly vote, 118 countries supported it. However, Grigory Lukyantsev, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Multilateral Cooperation on Human Rights, noted that countries that were part of Hitler's Axis during World War II have consistently voted against the document, citing their own interpretations of the rights to freedom of speech and assembly.