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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution with recommendations to Ukraine on the law on education in terms of minority languages.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is holding a debate on the language provisions of the Ukrainian law on education, which caused dissatisfaction among several EU countries expressing concern about the language of instruction in schools in relation to national minorities.
President Petro Poroshenko has underscored the inadmissibility of politicizing the new Ukrainian law on education, which is not only a significant part of the education reform, but also a law of equal opportunities for all the participants of the education process, the presidential administration’s press service reports.
Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavel Klimkin in an op-ed for Hungarian Magyar Nemzet urged Hungary to leave out unnecessary emotions and soberly assess the actual situation with languages in schools across Zakarpattia region, MFA Ukraine reported on Facebook.
"It is totally natural and normal for Hungary and Romania to take joint action with regard to the amendment of Ukraine's Act on Education," Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, reporting on a meeting with his Romanian counterpart on Monday, Kormany.hu reports.
Ukraine's steps to ensure conditions for the children to learn the state language are understood, according to Minister of Education and Science of Latvia Karlis Sadurskis who met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Friday, the press service of MFA Ukraine reports.
Ukrainian authorities could not but strengthen the role of the Ukrainian language in education, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated during his Thursday meeting with Ukrainian teachers in Kyiv, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Hrynevych says that the Russian Federation has "absolutely strange reactions" to the way Ukraine is developing, an UNIAN correspondent reported from the official’s briefing following her meeting with Romanian Minister of National Education Liviu Marian Pop.
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.
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Hrynevych has told 112 Ukraine TV channel she is disappointed with Hungary's intention to hinder the rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU over the language provisions of the new law on education.