President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko emphasizes the priority of the protection of the Ukrainian language, but notes that Ukrainian legislation leaves possibilities for realizing the rights of citizens of Ukraine, for whom the Ukrainian language is not native.
“As the head of state, as an active participant in the process of building a Ukrainian political nation, I have to take care and I am caring for legislative initiatives having more space for the realization of the rights of those citizens whose native language of communication is Crimean Tatar, Russian, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, but we will all defend the Ukrainian language together,” the president said at the Last Bell at the Yamnytsky Lyceum in Ivano-Frankivsk region on Thursday.
According to him, this is a priority task.
“I want to emphasize that we can take care of our Ukrainian language only with you and we will surely take care of it,” he said.
