Prime Minister of Romania Marcel Ciolacu, after the joint meeting of the governments of Ukraine and Romania in Kyiv today, October 18, expressed gratitude to the Ukrainian side for the decision to abandon the use of the term “Moldovan language”.
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He stated this at a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal.
I especially want to thank Prime Minister Shmygal for the openness he showed in his efforts to recognize the non-existence of the so-called Moldovan language,” Colak emphasized. – From now on, at the international level there is only one official language – Romanian. I believe that with this decision of the Ukrainian government this invention of the Russian Federation was crossed out.
A joint statement by the prime ministers of both countries, which was subsequently published, stated that the Ukrainian government decided to “urgently resolve the issue of artificial differentiation between the Romanian and “Moldovan” languages by implementing appropriate practical measures with due regard to all legal aspects.”
The “Moldovian language” arose during the Soviet era and actually denoted the Cyrillic version of the Romanian language.
The Constitution of Moldova of 1994, which also guided Ukraine in this matter, defined the “Moldovan language” as the national language of Moldova, but in December 2013 the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that the text of the declaration of independence takes precedence over the provisions of the constitution. The Declaration of Independence of Moldova stated that the state language is Romanian.
In March of this year, a law changing the name “Moldovan language” to “Romanian” in the Constitution and other state laws came into force in Moldova.
Romanian authorities have repeatedly asked Kyiv to recognize the Moldovan language as non-existent. On October 10, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, answering questions from journalists during a visit to Bucharest, said that he did not see this as a global problem and noted that in the near future the Ukrainian government would make a decision “on the answer to this question.”
Source: Racurs
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