A/RES/65/199
Recalling further the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on 8 September 2001, 7 in
particular paragraph 2 of the Declaration and paragraph 86 of the Programme of
Action, as well as the relevant provisions of the outcome document of the Durban
Review Conference, of 24 April 2009, 8 in particular paragraphs 11 and 54,
Alarmed, in this regard, at the spread in many parts of the world of various
extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo-Nazis and
skinhead groups, as well as similar extremist ideological movements,
Recalling that in 2010 the international community celebrated the sixty-fifth
anniversary of victory in the Second World War, and welcoming in this regard the
special solemn meeting of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, held on
6 May 2010,
Recalling also that the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly coincides
with the sixty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Nuremberg Tribunal and
the adoption of its Charter,
Reaffirms the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration7 and of the
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outcome document of the Durban Review Conference,8 in which States condemned
the persistence and resurgence of neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism and violent nationalist
ideologies based on racial and national prejudice and stated that those phenomena
could never be justified in any instance or in any circumstances;
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on
2.
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance, prepared in accordance with the request contained in General Assembly
resolution 64/147; 9
3.
Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights for her commitment to maintaining the fight against racism as one of
the priority activities of her Office;
Expresses deep concern about the glorification of the Nazi movement
4.
and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting
monuments and memorials and holding public demonstrations in the name of the
glorification of the Nazi past, the Nazi movement and neo-Nazism, as well as by
declaring or attempting to declare such members and those who fought against the
anti-Hitler coalition and collaborated with the Nazi movement participants in
national liberation movements;
Expresses concern at recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish
5.
monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the
Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such
persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant
obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva
Conventions of 1949; 10
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See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
See A/CONF.211/8, chap. I.
9
See A/65/323.
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