The Foreign Ministers of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, and Serbia issued a joint statement on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory in World War II at the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting Bratislava, December 5-6, 2019.
According to the document, Nazism was defeated thanks to "the indestructible unity and solidarity of our peoples and the joint struggle waged by the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition".
"It is our solemn duty to preserve the historical truth. We denounce as a sacrilege any acts of disrespect for the monuments of Red Army soldiers and officers, vandalism directed against the graves of those who gave their lives for the liberation of Europe from Nazism. There is no justification for the vandalism against these memorial objects. We urge all countries to honor the memory of the heroic liberators and to maintain military graves in proper condition.
We condemn any attempts to falsify the results of World War II. We are outraged by some countries’ striving to rehabilitate and glorify Nazi criminals and their accomplices. We believe that the decisions of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which have no statute of limitations, must be strictly complied with. Hiding ethnic and religious hate crimes will inevitably lead humankind to a new catastrophe," the Russian MFA message reads.
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