[lg policy] Poroshenko: Decade of Ukrainian language in country ahead

[Harold Schiffman]

 Poroshenko: Decade of Ukrainian language in country ahead

18:26, 09 March 2018 Politics 394 0

Poroshenko emphasizes that the Ukrainian authorities are confidently
holding a course to strengthen the role of Shevchenko's language in all
spheres of public life. Photo from UNIAN Photo from UNIAN Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko says he has received a lot of appeals in recent
months calling for the proclamation of 2018 as the year of the Ukrainian
language. "I'll say straight away: I will not do this. Why? It is
absolutely obvious that the year is not enough. And what will we do in
2019? Forget about the Ukrainian language? One year is not enough to make
up for everything Ukrainian language lost due to colonial policy," he said
during the ceremony of awarding the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, the
presidential press service reports. Read alsoUkraine's Rada to consider
raising to 50% share of Ukrainian-language content in print media The
president thanked the authors of petitions for active civic stance and said
that in the near future he intends to sign a decree on the development of a
ten-year program of rooting and strengthening the state status of the
native Ukrainian language. "I urge you all to cooperate, to persevere in
this direction. The decade of Ukrainian language in Ukraine is ahead.
During these decades, positive irreversible changes have to take place. And
the key word is irreversible," he said. Poroshenko emphasizes that the
Ukrainian authorities are confidently holding a course to strengthen the
role of Shevchenko's language in all spheres of public life. At the same
time, he is an active participant in the process of building the Ukrainian
political nation and seeks to ensure that Ukrainian legislative initiatives
leave a wide scope for implementing the rights of those citizens of Ukraine
whose native language or language of communication is Crimean Tatar,
Russian or other. "It is equally obvious that the authorities will never
interfere in the private sphere and in no way will regulate the language of
interpersonal communications," Poroshenko emphasized.

Read more on UNIAN:
https://www.unian.info/politics/10036565-poroshenko-decade-of-ukrainian-language-in-country-ahead.html


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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