CIS foreign ministers endorse draft address of CIS leaders on preventing glorification of Nazism
MINSK. Oct 9 (Interfax) - The foreign ministers of the CIS countries have approved a draft address by the CIS presidents on the unacceptability of glorification of Nazism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"We have approved a draft address by the CIS heads of state to the CIS nations and the international community, an address devoted to the upcoming 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War [the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany as part of WWII]. It underscores the need to honor the feat of the dead and to raise the younger generation in such a way that it should be worthy of the memory of their fathers and grandfathers," Lavrov told journalists in Minsk.
The address "contains a call for preventing the glorification of Nazism and the distortion or misinterpretation of WWII history, and a call on all governments and all nations of the world to cooperate on the basis of the principles of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe so as to build a new, just, and democratic world order," he said.
The CIS foreign ministers also endorsed other decisions concerning humanitarian cooperation and interaction in the tourism, music, and cinema fields. They also approved a general concept of interaction in dealing with trafficking in humans and documents concerning activities of the Council of the chiefs of financial intelligence bodies. The most important of these documents would be presented to the CIS leaders for endorsement at a summit in Minsk on Friday, Lavrov said.
