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Moldovan capital inaugurates signage in minority languages

On 13 November, the Mayor of Chişinău and representatives of the Council of Europe, the EU, the Moldovan authorities and national minorities inaugurated the city’s new multilingual pedestrian signage. Chişinău is one of the Republic of Moldova’s pilot municipalities for the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which the country has undertaken to ratify. The new signs indicate public institutions (parliament, presidency, government, town hall), cultural institutions (museums, theatres, concert halls, circus), churches and synagogues, monuments and memorials, parks and major streets, university buildings, the railway station and the airport. Each sign is trilingual, bearing inscriptions in Romanian, a local minority language (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, German or Yiddish) and English. 184 signs have been installed along Bd. Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt, Chişinău’s main avenue. The initiative, implemented in the framework of the Council of Europe/EU project “Protecting national minorities and minority languages in Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Belarus”, attracted considerable attention from local media.

Chişinău, Moldova 13/11/2018
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Secretariat of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Directorate of Anti-Discrimination
DGII Democracy
Council of Europe
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