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UN Mission calls Kiev to develop ethnic minorities law

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UN Mission calls Kiev to develop ethnic minorities law


17.09.2019

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Kiev needs to develop ethnic minorities law, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. According to the mission's head Matilda Bogner it has to be a priority action plan. 

Matilda Bogner recalled that during last two months the state language law is in power in Ukraine. She thinks it's important to reach balance between protection of the rights of the national minorities, freedom of expression, and support of national language as a  tool for society reconciliation.

It should be recalled that the new law on state language will make even more pressure on those who speak Russian, and on the representatives of other national minorities. Many of its provisions are not consistent with the international obligations undertaken by Kiev, and contrary to the Ukrainian Constitution. The law also does not comply with the Minsk agreements. It will only aggravate the split of Ukrainian society and further alienate the prospects for resolving the crisis that Ukraine is going through.

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