If the steps required by Budapest are not taken, Hungary will not cease blocking Ukraine-NATO cooperation.
The ministerial meeting of the NUC was to be held Feb 14 or Feb 15 during the forum of all defense ministers of the Allies.
The official has clearly confirmed understanding of the need for all Ukraine nationals to learn the state language, with their rights preserved to learn the languages of national minorities.
The Hungarian foreign minister claims that Budapest's standpoint is in full harmony with the expectations of the European Union and the Council of Europe.
For the first time since the Maidan revolution, Ukraine’s road to the transatlantic community is being actively blocked not only by Russia but by an EU and NATO member state as well, Hungary, Peter Kreko, who is an executive director of the Budapest-based Political Capital Institute, wrote for the Atlantic Council.
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Hrynevych believes that the discussion on the language clause of the law on education has not yet been closed, TV Channel 5 reports.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has offered three options for the implementation of Article 7 of Law "On Education" regarding the language of instruction in Ukrainian educational facilities, which will be spelled out in law "On General Secondary Education."
The European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) has officially published its opinion on provisions of the Law of Ukraine on Education of September 5, 2017, which concern the use of the state language and minority and other languages in education.
The Venice Commission has called on Ukraine to amend the “language article” of the Ukrainian law on education in relation to Russian language, according to the statement published on the website of the Council of Europe.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has called “balanced and constructive” the opinion of the Venice Commission regarding the language article of Law "On Education", according to a statement published on the ministry website.
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Szijjarto, speaking at the 24th OSCE Council of Ministers in Vienna December 7, called on the Organization’s Special Monitoring Mission to conduct constant monitoring of the situation in the western Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia claiming there are “tensions” in the area.
The Hungarian government plays an ethnic card in all neighboring states, therefore Ukraine’s new law on education was harshly criticized in Budapest, which has been actively supporting their minority in the Ukrainian territory, Uzhgorod-based political scientist Dmytro Tuzhansky said, according to Novoye Vremya magazine.
Speaking of Ukraine and its education law at a press conference on the sidelines of the Eastern European Summit on November 24, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Hungary would not “sacrifice” ethnic Hungarians living in western Ukraine “on the altar of world politics”, according to the Hungarian Journal.
It is high time to stop politicizing the new Ukrainian Law on education, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Mykola Tochytskyi wrote for Euroactiv.
Minister of Defense of Hungary Istvan Simicsko chose not to answer an UNIAN correspondent’s question regarding Budapest’s use of NATO as an instrument of blackmail in the row over Ukraine’s education law.
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze says that the North Atlantic Alliance is concerned over Hungary’s position on blocking the meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Commission, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reports.
Ukrainian Education Minister Lilia Hrynevych has announced that all schools in Ukraine are to publish information on the receipts and use of money under the new law on education before December 1, 2017, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.
First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Piotr Glinski has said the two countries found mutual understanding with respect to the education law in Ukraine in terms of languages of national minorities, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski in an interview with Hungary’s Heti Valasz has addressed the issue of Ukraine’s new education law, the response to which differed greatly in Warsaw and Budapest, Rzeczpospolita reports.
Hungary will not be able to address the issue of Ukraine’s news education law at the next meeting of the Ukraine-EU Association Council without Kyiv’s consent because this would only be possible if agreed with the Ukrainian authorities, Ukraine's Mission to the EU reported on Facebook referring to its chief Mykola Tochytskyi’s interview with Radio Svoboda.