Spanish parliament committee recognizes Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians, calls for support in war with Russia

European Pravda reported the information.

It noted that during the voting, 29 members of the parliamentary committee supported the resolution, four voted against, and one abstained.

The resolution, presented by a deputy from the far-right Vox party, Professor Carlos Flores, refers to the famine of the 1930s in the then Soviet Ukraine, planned by the Stalinist regime.

The resolution calls on the Spanish government to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide and to publicly honor the memory of its victims. At the same time, it emphasized “to continue to strongly support, within the EU, economic, humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine to defend its democracy and territorial integrity against the authoritarian Russian regime.”

• Countries and organizations that have recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people include: Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, France, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the United States, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Croatia, Slovakia, Wales, the European Parliament, and the Baltic Assembly.