UNITED NATIONS, November 12. /TASS/. A number of countries, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine voted against the Russia-initiated 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, a TASS correspondent reported.

A total of 54 countries voted against it. Along with the above-mentioned countries, Australia, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, the United States, Poland, France, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Estonia were among them.

Meanwhile, 116 countries, including Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Serbia, and Syria, supported the document.

The draft resolution was co-authored by Algeria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, China, North Korea, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan, South Korea, Serbia, Syria, Sudan, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, South Africa, and other countries. Russia has been traditionally initiating this resolution every year since 2005.

The 74-paragraph document strongly condemns incidents linked with the glorification and propaganda of Nazism, welcomes efforts to preserve historical truth, recommends that measures be taken to avert the denial of crimes against humanity, to prevent revisionism in respect of World War II. The resolution also "strongly 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.".