<div dir="ltr"><div style id="stcpDiv"><h1>Bulgaria Slams Ukraine For Canceling the Status of Bulgarian Language</h1>
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Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, photo by BGNES
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<div id="textsize"><p>The Bulgarian government is dissatisfied with <b>Ukraine</b>'s decision to cancel the recognition of Bulgarian language as regional language.</p>
<p>Earlier this week <b>Ukraine</b>'s Verkhovna Rada canceled the State
Language Policy Act, which was granting the status of “regional
language” to the language of minority groups who make up more than 10%
of the residents in an area.</p>
<p>Compact Bulgarian communities live in some areas of the <b>Bessarabia</b> region in southern <b>Ukraine</b>, mostly in Artsiz, Izmail and Bolgrad. There Bulgarian was granted the status of a regional language.</p>
<p>Another regional language in some parts of <b>Ukraine</b> was Russian.</p>
<p><b>Bulgaria</b>'s Foreign Minister Kristian <b>Vigenin</b> raised the language issue with <b>Ukraine</b>'s ambassador in Sofia and at the meeting in Budapest of the Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group - <b>Bulgaria</b>, Romania and Greece.</p>
<p>“The current political leaders in <b>Ukraine</b> must demonstrate
responsibility and strive for inclusion of all groups in the Ukrainian
society with respect for human rights and the rule of law”, said <b>Bulgaria</b>'s Foreign Ministry in a statement on its website.</p></div> - See more at: <a href="http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=158488#sthash.dXUkrYf1.dpuf">http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=158488#sthash.dXUkrYf1.dpuf</a></div>
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