National minorities will now have more time to switch to the new language rules applied in educational facilities.
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.
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.
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.
Hungary may insist on adding a notion about the law on education in Ukraine in the final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit, according to RFE/RL correspondent in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak.
Amid a barrage criticism poured on Ukraine by Hungary over the signing by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko of the law on education, the country’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that Ukraine was working to ensure that its citizens of Hungarian origin felt most comfortable.