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MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 26th April, 2019) <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/kiev.html" target="_blank">Kiev</a>'s newly adopted law on the Ukrainian language should be submitted to the <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/venice.html" target="_blank">Venice</a> Commission, an advisory body of the Council of <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/europe.html" target="_blank">Europe</a>, for consideration, Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said on Friday.<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">On Thursday, the Ukrainian <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/parliament.html" target="_blank">parliament</a> adopted the law "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language." The legislation provides for the use of the Ukrainian language in almost <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/all.html" target="_blank">all</a> spheres of life. It should become mandatory for state authorities and local governments, <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/all.html" target="_blank">all</a> educational institutions, hospitals and the service sector.</p><div class="gmail-teads-adCall" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">"We are aware that the Ukrainian <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/parliament.html" target="_blank">Parliament</a> has adopted a new language law. We have stressed repeatedly that Ukrainian authorities should submit this language law for the consideration of the <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/venice.html" target="_blank">Venice</a> Commission of the Council of <a class="gmail-txt_link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%" href="https://www.urdupoint.com/en/latest-news/europe.html" target="_blank">Europe</a> before its entry into force," she said at the European Commission Midday press briefing.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px rgb(0,0,0);line-height:26px;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%">She added that the European Commission is currently awaiting the publication of the final version of this law "with the view of studying its content.</p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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></div></div>