On May 18, 2011 within the framework of an official visit to Romania Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko met with representatives of the Ukrainian community.

During the meeting the Minister stressed that the satisfaction of cultural and educational rights of the Ukrainians in Romania, the enlargement of the network of Ukrainian-language educational institutions is a priority in bilateral relations. According to K.Gryshchenko, Ukraine is interested in resuming the work of the mixed Ukrainian-Romanian intergovernmental commission on securing the rights of persons who belong to national minorities and in the continuation of the suspended on Bucharest’s initiative OSCE monitoring of observance of the rights of the Romanians in Ukraine and of the Ukrainians in Romania.

K.Gryshchenko stressed that President of Ukraine V.Yanukovych strives to facilitate the state’s support for the foreign Ukrainianhood in general and the Ukrainian community in Romania in particular.