United Nations ? The U.N. General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution Tuesday that will create the first international day of commemoration for the six million Jews and other victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

The International Day of Commemoration will be held every year on Jan. 27.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman thanked the 191 members of the General Assembly “at this unique and historic moment … for adopting this unprecedented resolution.”

Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the annual commemoration will serve as “an important reminder of the universal lessons of the Holocaust, a unique evil which cannot simply be consigned to the past and forgotten,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

There was no vote on the resolution. Instead, General Assembly President Jan Eliasson banged the gavel signifying consensus after asking whether there were any objections and hearing none.

But after the vote, Egypt’s U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz complained that the day should commemorate all victims of genocide and not be limited just to victims of the Holocaust.

Venezuela’s Ambassador Imeria Nunez de Odreman also expressed concern that it did not encompass other recent genocides including those in Cambodia, Rwanda and Kosovo.