15:56 09.12.2017

Klimkin hopes for language issue solution with Hungarians in Ukraine

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Klimkin hopes for language issue solution with Hungarians in Ukraine

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin is sure that Ukraine and Hungary will find a solution to the language problem.

"Hungarians should get all the chances in the civil service, in politics, which is already clear to our Hungarian partners. But there are certainly some nuances in domestic politics, but I am sure that we will agree. Hungarian education remains, but a part of the subjects will be taught in the Ukrainian language," he told reporters in Kyiv on Saturday.

The foreign minister said that everyone should know the Ukrainian language and understand in which country he lives.

As reported, the Ukrainian law on education came into force on September 28.

Among other things, the law stipulates that the state language is a language of learning at educational institutions, but one or several subjects in two or more languages, namely, the state language, English and other European Union official languages can be taught in compliance with the educational program.

People, who belong to ethnic minorities, are guaranteed the right for learning in the native language along with the Ukrainian language in separate groups of municipal pre-school and primary school institutions.

On September 28, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sent the education law for examination by the Venice Commission.

The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 26 announced the intention of the country to block the rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU because of the law on education.

On December 8, the Education Ministry reported that the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) not supported Hungary's accusation of narrowing the rights of national minorities in the article on the language of instruction in the Law of Ukraine "On Education."

"Therefore, Hungary's accusations are not supported," the ministry said in a statement.

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