Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu requested that the Ukrainian authorities give up the phrase “Moldovan language”, after the Romanian language became the official language in the Republic of Moldova, this being included in the country’s Constitution.
Aurescu discussed this topic in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba. The two officials discussed the rights of persons belonging to the Romanian community in Ukraine and respectively the Ukrainian community in Romania.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova, “they referred to the institutional dialogue at expert level between the two countries, with a view to obtaining concrete results, in terms of preserving and promoting identity rights of people belonging to the two communities. Aurescu and Kuleba agreed to continue the talks at a sustained pace, and Kuleba pledged to support the involvement of the Ukrainian authorities in this regard”.
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, promulgated at the end of last month a law on replacing the phrase “Moldovan language” with phrase “Romanian language” in all laws of the Republic of Moldova, including the Constitution.
“I promulgated the Law that confirms a historical and indisputable truth: the state language of the Republic of Moldova is Romanian language. I want the Romanian language to unite all of us who live here and who love this land. We, along with more than twenty-seven million people around the world, speak Romanian, one of the official languages of the European Union”, said Maia Sandu.