Ukraine is trying to bribe Europe – Lavrov
Kyiv is trying to get approval from international organizations for its Russophobic initiatives with certain assurances.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this during a speech at MGIMO, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“This year and last year, we have been quite consistently promoting the topic of ensuring the rights of national minorities – linguistic, religious and others. The reason for this was the actions of the previous leadership of Ukraine - the regime of Petro Poroshenko, under which the Verkhovna Rada adopted a series of laws that grossly violated not only Ukraine’s international obligations to ensure the rights of national minorities, but also the constitution of the Ukrainian state.
This applies to both the law on education and the law on Ukrainian as the state language, in which, in fact, all languages of national minorities are grossly discriminated against in comparison with the Ukrainian language.
Considering that in response to criticism from the Council of Europe and other human rights structures, the Ukrainian leadership under Poroshenko began to make a statement that they would provide this law with some kind of addition, according to which EU languages would be excluded from its scope, and if this is so, then the only discriminated language will be Russian,” Lavrov noted.
He also added that Russian diplomats will protect the interests of compatriots in Ukraine, in particular, they called on Europeans not to succumb to Kyiv’s tricks.
“We called on our colleagues from the EU not to even consider this kind of provocative appeals, which have only one goal - to literally buy Europeans, satisfy their concerns about the fate of the Romanian, Hungarian, Polish languages in Ukraine, and thereby wash their hands and leave the Russian language - the main language other than Ukrainian, spoken by millions of Ukrainians, is in such a discriminatory situation.
We will promote relevant initiatives, including within the framework of the UN General Assembly, its Third Committee, which deals with human rights issues, and within the OSCE in general,” the Russian Foreign Minister concluded.
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