Support for Romanians in Ukraine

support for romanians in ukraine The Romanian Government reacts by taking concrete measures as to the provisions of the new education law in Ukraine

On Thursday the Romanian Government adopted concrete measures to support the ethnic Romanian students and their teachers in the neighboring Ukraine. Therefore, the best one thousand students will receive from the Romanian state monthly scholarships amounting to 200 lei, that is around 50 Euros. Also 300 teachers from the Romanian schools in Ukraine will be able to attend teacher training and development courses in the universities of Cluj (northwest), Suceava (northeast), Iasi (east) and Galati (center east). 


Those who can enroll in these courses are the teachers who hold diplomas allowing them to be teachers on the territory of Ukraine and who can provide documents proving that they have declared their Romanian identity. The candidates will be selected by the higher education institutions that organize the training courses, with the support of the associations, organizations and foundations of ethnic Romanians in Ukraine. 


These measures, initiated upon the proposal of the Ministry for Romanians Abroad, are meant to ensure the observance of the right to linguistic identity for the ethnic Romanians in Ukraine, through means that should provide tuition in their mother tongue, writes a communiqué of the aforementioned ministry. Bucharest is thus trying to mitigate the effects of the new Ukrainian education law, which was passed last autumn and which largely restricts the ethnic minorities' right to education in their mother tongue. 


According to that law, children belonging to the ethnic minorities in Ukraine will be able to study in their language only in kindergarten and primary school. Starting with secondary school, they will have to study exclusively in Ukrainian. This month, the Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu proposed to his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin that Romania and Ukraine draft a common document on the implementation of the Ukrainian education law. Previously, Minister Melescanu and his counterparts from Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece had signed a joint letter in which they expressed concern with and profound regret over the passing of the new education law in Ukraine. 


The Romanian education minister Liviu Pop traveled to Kiev to make a plea against this law. In a declaration voted unanimously in Romania's Parliament, Bucharest officials called for the re-examination of the law and warned that they were following 'very closely and with concern' the developments generated by the provisions of this law. In turn, the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis decided to postpone his visit to Kiev. Analysts consider Bucharest's concerns absolutely legitimate, given that almost half a million ethnic Romanians live in Ukraine, most of them in the eastern Romanian territories annexed in 1940, following an ultimatum, by the former Soviet Union. The territories were taken over by Ukraine as a successor state in 1991.



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