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<div style="left: -99999px;">Poroshenko: Decade of
Ukrainian language in country ahead
<br><br>18:26, 09 March 2018
Politics
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<br><br>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.
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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.<br><br> Read more on UNIAN: <a href="https://www.unian.info/politics/10036565-poroshenko-decade-of-ukrainian-language-in-country-ahead.html">https://www.unian.info/politics/10036565-poroshenko-decade-of-ukrainian-language-in-country-ahead.html</a><br></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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