The foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Romania signed a letter to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Pavel Klimkin, expressing concern over the new law on education that the Verkhovna Rada adopted.

This was reported by the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva.

"We are certainly worried, and it is not by chance that we have a joint initiative with colleagues from European countries who will be affected by this law.

And today we signed a letter with the Foreign Ministers of Hungary, Romania, Greece and Bulgaria to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in which we signal that this law does not affect the rights of minorities and their education in their native language. We will send the same letter to the Council of Europe and the OSCE. I received assurances from Ukraine that the law is aimed at strengthening the Ukrainian language and will not affect the study of European languages. But we must tell them in writing that we are serious about this problem, "she said..

She also noted that a few days ago a deputy Ukrainian ambassador was called to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, where he was concerned about the law.