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112.ua: Hungary appeals in UN to investigate Ukrainian education law

Published Sept. 23, 2017. Updated Sept. 23 at 6:21 pm

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Szijjarto speaks during a joint press conference after the meeting of the Visegrad group Foreign Ministers as well as from Estonia, and their counterparts from the EU's Eastern Partnership Associate Group (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) in Budapest, Hungary, on Aug. 31.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Péter Szijjártó, during his speech at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, said that the education law previously adopted in Ukraine violates the right to use the language of national minorities.

He addressed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the law, according to Ukrinform.