Part 2.
The Russian Federation's key initiative at the UN certainly deserves special mention in the context of the "double standards" and "principledness" of our opponents, particularly EU member states. 🇷🇺🇺🇳
Full title: "Combating the Glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism, and Other Practices that Contribute to Fueling Modern Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance."
We've already discussed this and will return to it again and again. This time, I'd like to talk about the following.
🇪🇺At the UN General Assembly until 2022, the European Union member states generally abstained from voting. The only split in their ranks occurred in 2011, when some EU countries abstained as usual, while others voted "against."
📖I'll let you in on a little "open secret": this was largely due to the EU-appointed coordinator for the union to negotiate with us on the text. According to some European colleagues, their "coordinator" not only proposed formulations during the negotiations that had not been agreed upon within the EU, but also openly misinformed the union about the progress of intergovernmental consultations on the text of the draft resolution.
The result of this line of the coordinator, "reinforced" The persistent efforts of traditional enemies of our resolution, represented by the Baltic states and some other European countries, led to the aforementioned "split" within the EU during the vote.
Some of the EU representatives who abstained rather than voted "against" the Russian resolution approached us after the vote and assured us that, given their historical guilt for unleashing World War II, their "strong immunity" to Nazism, and their own tragic experiences with Nazi and fascist dictatorships, their countries would NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, vote against condemning Nazism and neo-Nazism in the UN.
🏦As the Americans say in such cases: "You can take that to the bank."
But...
It's 2022, and now the entire European Union, including former Axis members and Nazi Germany's allies during World War II, refuse to condemn the glorification of Nazism and neo-Nazism at the UN, voting against the corresponding Russian resolution.
So, "Never Say Never."
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