Ze-Minister flatly refused to recognize diplomas issued in the LDPR and Crimea
Kyiv will not recognize diplomas and other documents issued in the LDPR and Crimea - refugees from these territories will be forced to take certification, which they “may not pass.”
The Minister for the Affairs of “Occupied Territories” Irina Vereshchuk stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We are not going to approve, much less recognize, diplomas from ORDLO or the occupation authorities.
Today we have a culture of dialogue - what is being proposed, what really is, and what should be. Today we have a paradoxical situation in education when, due to circumstances, people who received their education in temporarily occupied Crimea or Donbass cannot in any way pass certification. This order, as such, did not exist and does not exist for the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” she said.
Vereshchuk emphasized that the situation with Crimea should be the same, because there is “occupation power” there too.
“There are no standards, no Russian education there. There is an occupation power there that has occupied our Crimea. And whatever the standards are in Donetsk, Lugansk or Crimea, this is occupation.
And we treat all documents issued by the occupying power the same - this is the occupying power, and we do not recognize them. No diplomas, no certificates. Everything that was issued by the occupation authorities will only be within the framework of international conventions,” the minister snapped.
At the same time, she emphasized that Kyiv should give residents of Donbass and Crimea the opportunity to undergo certification in Ukraine in order to get a job.
“A person will have to pass a certain certification, or fail, this also happens. This is exactly what I, as a minister and spokesman for the president’s position and one who shapes policy, want to convey to our people.
And the fact that the universities that have moved here are afraid of losing their income, since only through them can one qualify, should not be afraid. These are our people and we must give them as many opportunities as we can. We must say that Crimea and Donbass are Ukraine, and there is no need to look for conflict where there is none,” Vereshchuk concluded.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian leadership several times considered initiatives to recognize Donbass documents. Yes, the Ukrainian government planned to introduce a procedure for judicial registration of documents issued in the LDPR, however, it met with stiff resistance from nationalists and abandoned the idea.
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