Latvian Education and Science Minister Karlis Sadurskis has said that the provisions of the language article of the new Ukrainian law on education are well grounded, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on September 29.

"Ukraine's steps to ensure prerequisites for the learning of the state language in the education system are clear," Sadurskis said at a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, who briefed him on the main provisions of the law.

Based on Latvia's experience, Sadurskis noted the importance of creating prerequisites for schoolchildren to acquire the necessary knowledge of the state language and not be discriminated in the labor market of their country.

Klimkin, in turn, noted the interest of Ukraine in borrowing Latvia's experience of the functioning of the education system using the languages of national minorities.

As reported, the law on education was published on September 27 and 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 26, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry said that the country intended to block rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU because of the law on education.

The Ukrainian Education and Science Ministry sent a letter to the Council of Europe stating its intention to submit the language article of the education law for examination by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).