[lg policy] Bulgaria Slams Ukraine For Canceling the Status of Bulgarian Language

[Harold Schiffman]

Bulgaria Slams Ukraine For Canceling the Status of Bulgarian Language
P <http://www.novinite.com/category.php?category_id=2>February 25, 2014,
Tuesday // 16:29| Views: 1271 | Comments: 2

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 [image: Bulgaria: Bulgaria Slams Ukraine For Canceling the Status of
Bulgarian Language] Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, photo by
BGNES

The Bulgarian government is dissatisfied with *Ukraine*'s decision to
cancel the recognition of Bulgarian language as regional language.

Earlier this week *Ukraine*'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.

Compact Bulgarian communities live in some areas of the *Bessarabia* region
in southern *Ukraine*, mostly in Artsiz, Izmail and Bolgrad. There
Bulgarian was granted the status of a regional language.

Another regional language in some parts of *Ukraine* was Russian.

*Bulgaria*'s Foreign Minister Kristian *Vigenin* raised the language issue
with *Ukraine*'s ambassador in Sofia and at the meeting in Budapest of the
Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group - *Bulgaria*, Romania and Greece.

"The current political leaders in *Ukraine* 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 *Bulgaria*'s Foreign
Ministry in a statement on its website.
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