(13 Oct 2017) Ukraine has pledged not to close Romanian language schools under a new education law that has caused alarm in Russia and Hungary.
Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian foreign minister, said the new law was about "what is needed on the ground by the Romanian community".
Ukraine has insisted it wasn't discriminating against ethnic minorities, saying the law was designed to give ethnic minorities language skills to make them competitive on the labour market and in public life.
Romanian foreign minister Teodor Melescanu said Ukraine had promised: "no Romanian school will be closed ... and no teachers in a Romanian school will be fired".
Melescanu said students would be educated in their mother tongue and also learn Ukrainian language, literature, history and geography.
Ukraine's education law passed last month specifies that Ukrainian will be the main language used in schools, rolling back the option for lessons to be taught in other languages.
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