Zelenskyy excludes Russian and Moldovan languages from the list protected by the European Charter
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The President has excluded the Russian and Moldovan languages from the list protected by the European Charter. The Czech language was added to the list, and the names of Jewish languages were clarified.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed bill No. 14120, which provides for the exclusion of the Russian and Moldovan languages from the list of those protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This was reported by UNN with reference to the bill's tracking card.
Details
Returned with the signature of the President of Ukraine
According to the document, it is proposed that Ukraine, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 2 of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, will apply the provisions of Part 2 to Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Hebrew, Yiddish, Karaim, Crimean Tatar, Krymchak, German, Modern Greek, Polish, Romani, Rumeian, Romanian, Slovak, Hungarian, Urum, and Czech.
Prior to this, it applied to the languages of the following national minorities of Ukraine: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Greek, Jewish, Crimean Tatar, Moldovan, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak, and Hungarian.
That is, the current document proposes to remove the Russian and Moldovan languages from the list, replace the Jewish language with Hebrew, and add Czech.
Addendum
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a European treaty adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on November 5, 1992, to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.
Ukraine ratified the Charter in 2003, and it entered into force in 2006.
In March 2023, Moldova officially made Romanian the state language.
At the same time, the government of Ukraine adopted a decision to use the term "Romanian language" in Ukraine instead of the term "Moldovan language."
The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Olena Ivanovska, called on the People's Deputies of Ukraine to urgently adopt the bill, which provides for an update to the list of languages that truly require support and special protection.
In simple terms — to remove Russian from the list, as it does not need protection, and to deprive Kremlin propaganda of a manipulation tool
According to her, the incorrect official translation of the Charter led to a substitution of the object and purpose of the Charter as an international treaty, caused groundless accusations regarding Ukraine's improper fulfillment of its international obligations, and created conditions for political manipulation aimed at undermining the status of the Ukrainian language as the state language.
Back in 2021, the Constitutional Court ordered the authorities to correct this error. It is time to act — for the sake of justice, for the sake of respect for those languages of national communities and indigenous peoples that truly need support. This is not only a legal issue, but also a security one
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