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UN called on Zelensky to analyze the law on state language

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UN called on Zelensky to analyze the law on state language


17.07.2019

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The intention of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to carefully analyze the law on state language can only be welcomed, according to Rosemary Dicarlo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. She said this during her speech at the meeting of the UN Security Council held on July 16 in New York, RIA Novosti reports.

Zelensky wanted to understand how the law complied with the constitutional rights and interests of the inhabitants of the country. He called the document "a hostage of political rhetoric" and recalled that the decision was made without public discussion.

The meeting of the UN Security Council, which Moscow convened, was timed to the beginning of the new law in Ukraine.

At the same time, the representative of Kiev, Vladimir Yelchenko, argued that the law on state language was an internal affair of the country, and in the heat of discussion, he even began to speak Russian, defending the importance of the Ukrainian language.

As Russkiy Mir reported, the Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya stressed that the document violates Minsk agreements approved by the UN Security Council resolution. According to him, it is not about the status of the Ukrainian, but about protecting Russian language, because authorities in Kiev began to eradicate it by "draconian means". Russian diplomat called on members of the UN Security Council to give an impartial assessment of the document.

The OSCE Commissioner on National Minorities Lamberto Zannier also believes that the law in its current version does not guarantee the protection of the rights of members of national minorities.

Nevertheless, the majority of representatives of Western countries had little interest in protecting the rights of national minorities; they preferred to accuse Russia again - in particular, about the detained Ukrainian sailors and the crash of flight MN17.

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