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Kyiv – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that the Ukrainian parliament will not consider at second reading the bill on the principles of the government language policy on June 19.

“It is impossible and this will not happen,” Lytvyn said during an online conference on Facebook social network on Friday.

June 19 is the deadline for submitting amendments to the bill, Lytvyn
said. The speaker said that some 400 amendments had been prepared for
the bill so far.

As reported on June 5, the Verkhovna Rada passed at first reading a
bill on the principles of state language policy, which strengthens the
positions of the Russian language and the languages of national
minorities in the regions, if the percentage of their speakers exceeds
10%.