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At the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation, deputies unanimously approved the bill aimed at guaranteeing the educational rights of Ukraine’s indigenous peoples and national minorities (communities). The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Vsevolod Chenets and Minister of Education and Science Andriy Butenko. This was reported on Telegram by Yulia Grishina, deputy head of the Servant of the People faction and head of the Subcommittee on Higher Education.
- According to this bill, Ukraine and Hungary have spent years working at various levels, dozens of meetings, difficult discussions, and compromise-seeking. Today we have a balanced text that, on one hand, guarantees educational rights of national minorities in line with European standards, and on the other — continues to protect the Ukrainian language, our national interests, and sovereignty, Grishina wrote.
She noted that the unanimous position of the parliamentary committee sent an important signal that even amid political disagreements, lawmakers can unite around the protection of national minority rights and Ukraine’s European course.
- This is an important step of our countries toward each other. The foundation of relations between our countries must again become mutual support, good-neighborliness, and cooperation, she added.
The next stage should be consideration and support of the bill in the Verkhovna Rada plenary session.
2 in October, a bill No 16119 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada, aimed at regulating the educational rights of indigenous peoples and national minorities whose languages are official EU languages, and to unblock the opening of two negotiation clusters on Ukraine’s EU accession.
In May, a group of people’s deputies registered bill No 15223, proposing to officially include Gagauzes in the list of indigenous peoples of Ukraine.
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