Hungary is suggesting that Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko not sign the education bill passed by the Verkhovna Rada on September 5, which disregards the basic rights to the use of the native language, including in education, Hungarian Ambassador to Ukraine Erno Keskeny said.

"Hungary suggests that the Ukrainian president, rather than sign the law in its present form, send it back to the Ukrainian parliament for refinement," Keskeny wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.

The main problem is that up to now ethnic minorities in Ukraine were allowed to be educated in their native tongue, from kindergarten through university, but in future such a possibility will only be limited to kindergartens and the first four years of school, the ambassador wrote.

"With this decision the Ukrainian legislature has shown complete disregard for the basic rights to use ones native tongue, including [the right to] the education in ones native tongue, of around 150,000 citizens who see themselves as part of the Hungarian ethnicity and community," Keskeny said.

"It leaves the indigenous community of Zakarpattia and its members without the right which they have exercised as a minority for almost one hundred years now, regardless of which state this territory belonged to, and which all other countries neighboring Hungary are guaranteeing to their respective Hungarian communities," Keskeny said.

It was reported that on September 5, the Verkhovna Rada passed an education bill launching an education reform in Ukraine. The bill determines, among other things, that teaching at schools should be conducted in the national language.