Fwd: RFE/RL: Slovak Government Approves European Minority Language Charter

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Fwd: RFE/RL: Slovak Government Approves European Minority
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 12, Part II, 18 January 2001
SLOVAK GOVERNMENT APPROVES EUROPEAN MINORITY LANGUAGE CHARTER. The
cabinet on 17 January approved the European Charter of Regional and
Minority Languages, CTK reported. The charter refers to the use and
protection of minority languages in education, the judiciary, state
and local administration, the media, and culture. The right can be
exercised in localities where minorities make up 20 percent of the
population and more. The approval of the charter had been the subject
of intercoalition differences for longer than a year. Prime Minister
Mikulas Dzurinda said the decision "brings us closer to the amendment
of the constitution." That amendment is stalled by the refusal of most
coalition members to accept demands of the Hungarian Coalition Party
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 15 January 2001). MS
 

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