19 November 2015
United Nations (Sputnik) (click here) - The United States, Ukraine, Canada and Palau voted against the resolution. The European Union and NATO member countries abstained from the vote, according to a live streaming of the committee session broadcast on the UN website....
The social messaging into Ukraine regarding navism really is not appreciated and the propaganda has to end. Prohibition of an artist claiming the Ukraine government is run by Navis is an understandable prohibition, but, practicing censorship is inconsistent with freedom. If the artist is promulgating hate it needs to be reviewed and the content made public highlighting the myth against the reality of the achievements of Minsk 2. These social issues have to be addressed in transparency to the electorate because otherwise it will become a political weapon to defeat the current freedom and opportunity of the Ukraine people.
It is easy to note this artist is also acting against Minsk 2 and should not be allowed to raise such hatred among the Ukraine people. But, all this has to be transparent and put into the context of the country's movement to freedom and better economic future.
16 July 2015
The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture (click here) asked the Interior Ministry and the National Security Council to prevent the award-winning Serbian film director from playing a concert in Kiev over his support of Crimea’s reunification with Russia....
I do know Russia has been using the political presence of neo-nazism in Ukraine to justify its military presence on Ukraine's eastern border. But, I would think combating hate and expecting Ukraine to address it's perception problem is a better path. President Obama needs to explain this and submit his own resolution to the UN for consideration. No one wants institutionalized hatred. I think there needs to be movement on this issue in Ukraine and otherwise.
At the time Ukraine removed Yanukovish from the presidency and the former Prime Minister Tymoshenko was returned to Ukraine the soldiers of the Maiden were stated to be neo-nazis. That may be the case, but, they did not instill nazism into the constitution of 2004 or in to the practice of the current government. The current and past governments have been focused on freedom and economic involvement on many fronts and not just Russia
In remind the presidency of Yushchenko disarmed the national military and placed his and his oligarchs own militias in local authority to control elections and economic practices. That is a threat to the people and threatening the people had become the mainstay of the Yushchenko presidency. He also ended the resolutions of Ukraine people to begin economic practices with Europe.
Ukraine's current President Porochenko needs to address this issue of the perceived image of neo-nazism of his country. He should do so with transparency and conviction of Ukraine's promise of freedom and new enterprise opportunity with Europe. This is a very important issue. The USA has problems with neo-nazi groups. The USA groups are involved in organized crime including murder. The USA groups operate regardless of placing them in prison. So this vote at the UN is uncharacteristic of the USA and requires President Obama.
Obviously, this is an ongoing issue for Russia and the USA needs to address the problem in a way consistent with addressing hatred. I remind the USA has a degree of racism and it needs to be part of that resolve.
Racism doesn't disappear from any institutionalized hatred it needs to be removed and made plan to any democracy.
...Lasalle also said Canada (click here) did not support the resolution because it referred to the "highly politicized and anti-Semitic outcomes" of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa.
"Given its narrow focus and these concerns, Canada did not vote in favour of the resolution," Lasalle concluded.
The U.S. and Israel both pulled their delegations from that conference, saying at the time that Arab and Islamic nations were attempting to smear Israel over its treatment of Palestinians
Canada was also one of nine countries to boycott the 2009 World Conference Against Racism. Former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier said at the time that the decision was made because of the "open and divisive expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism" at the 2001 conference.
The representative from Ukraine said before the vote last week that despite opposing Nazism, he could not support the resolution because it did not condemn Stalinism in equally strong terms.
The U.S. representative said she questioned the "overt political motives" behind Russia's resolution and similarly could not vote in favour.
Russia has claimed for months that neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists are working with Ukrainian nationalists. Last April, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his troops intervened in Crimea because he could see "neo-Nazis rearing their heads" in the Ukrainian government.
And, earlier this month, Putin told a German television program he was concerned right-wing nationalists in Ukraine could cause the country to "drift toward neo-Nazism."
United Nations (Sputnik) (click here) - The United States, Ukraine, Canada and Palau voted against the resolution. The European Union and NATO member countries abstained from the vote, according to a live streaming of the committee session broadcast on the UN website....
The social messaging into Ukraine regarding navism really is not appreciated and the propaganda has to end. Prohibition of an artist claiming the Ukraine government is run by Navis is an understandable prohibition, but, practicing censorship is inconsistent with freedom. If the artist is promulgating hate it needs to be reviewed and the content made public highlighting the myth against the reality of the achievements of Minsk 2. These social issues have to be addressed in transparency to the electorate because otherwise it will become a political weapon to defeat the current freedom and opportunity of the Ukraine people.
It is easy to note this artist is also acting against Minsk 2 and should not be allowed to raise such hatred among the Ukraine people. But, all this has to be transparent and put into the context of the country's movement to freedom and better economic future.
16 July 2015
The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture (click here) asked the Interior Ministry and the National Security Council to prevent the award-winning Serbian film director from playing a concert in Kiev over his support of Crimea’s reunification with Russia....
I do know Russia has been using the political presence of neo-nazism in Ukraine to justify its military presence on Ukraine's eastern border. But, I would think combating hate and expecting Ukraine to address it's perception problem is a better path. President Obama needs to explain this and submit his own resolution to the UN for consideration. No one wants institutionalized hatred. I think there needs to be movement on this issue in Ukraine and otherwise.
At the time Ukraine removed Yanukovish from the presidency and the former Prime Minister Tymoshenko was returned to Ukraine the soldiers of the Maiden were stated to be neo-nazis. That may be the case, but, they did not instill nazism into the constitution of 2004 or in to the practice of the current government. The current and past governments have been focused on freedom and economic involvement on many fronts and not just Russia
In remind the presidency of Yushchenko disarmed the national military and placed his and his oligarchs own militias in local authority to control elections and economic practices. That is a threat to the people and threatening the people had become the mainstay of the Yushchenko presidency. He also ended the resolutions of Ukraine people to begin economic practices with Europe.
Ukraine's current President Porochenko needs to address this issue of the perceived image of neo-nazism of his country. He should do so with transparency and conviction of Ukraine's promise of freedom and new enterprise opportunity with Europe. This is a very important issue. The USA has problems with neo-nazi groups. The USA groups are involved in organized crime including murder. The USA groups operate regardless of placing them in prison. So this vote at the UN is uncharacteristic of the USA and requires President Obama.
Obviously, this is an ongoing issue for Russia and the USA needs to address the problem in a way consistent with addressing hatred. I remind the USA has a degree of racism and it needs to be part of that resolve.
Racism doesn't disappear from any institutionalized hatred it needs to be removed and made plan to any democracy.
...Lasalle also said Canada (click here) did not support the resolution because it referred to the "highly politicized and anti-Semitic outcomes" of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa.
"Given its narrow focus and these concerns, Canada did not vote in favour of the resolution," Lasalle concluded.
The U.S. and Israel both pulled their delegations from that conference, saying at the time that Arab and Islamic nations were attempting to smear Israel over its treatment of Palestinians
Canada was also one of nine countries to boycott the 2009 World Conference Against Racism. Former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier said at the time that the decision was made because of the "open and divisive expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism" at the 2001 conference.
The representative from Ukraine said before the vote last week that despite opposing Nazism, he could not support the resolution because it did not condemn Stalinism in equally strong terms.
The U.S. representative said she questioned the "overt political motives" behind Russia's resolution and similarly could not vote in favour.
Russia has claimed for months that neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists are working with Ukrainian nationalists. Last April, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his troops intervened in Crimea because he could see "neo-Nazis rearing their heads" in the Ukrainian government.
And, earlier this month, Putin told a German television program he was concerned right-wing nationalists in Ukraine could cause the country to "drift toward neo-Nazism."
