U.S. Opposes Western Amendment as UN Panel Backs Russia’s Anti‑Nazism Text

Washington says the vote reflects a decision to disengage from many Third Committee resolutions over perceived inefficiency.

Overview

The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted Russia’s annual resolution with a vote of 114 in favor, 52 against and 12 abstentions.
For the first time since 2022, the United States voted against a Western amendment that accused Moscow of using a neo‑Nazism pretext for its military actions, which the U.S., Australia and Japan had previously sponsored.
A U.S. diplomat said the committee’s workload had become wasteful and dysfunctional and stated the United States would vote no on the amendment as part of a broader pullback.
Russian Foreign Ministry official Grigory Lukyantsev described the U.S. voting shift as a positive outcome.
Despite rejecting the amendment, the United States voted against the resolution itself, with other opponents including Hungary, Canada, Slovakia, Ukraine and Japan.