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Gasparovic: Slovakia Wants to Be Good Home for Its Minorities
Monday 18 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 18 (TASR) - President Ivan Gasparovic on Monday met leaders of the country's ethnic minorities to mark the New Year, stressing on behalf of Slovakia that his country wants to be a good home for all its citizens, including by safeguarding minority constitutional rights and promoting cultural conditions.
"We're striving to create conditions so that ethnic communities can cultivate their languages, develop their cultural traditions and lead a full and social life," he said.
The president thanked minorities for their contribution to Slovakia's accomplishments, with which he thinks they are rightly credited.
According to the latest census in 2001, there are 12 official minorities in the country making up 13.2 percent of the total population (704,315 individuals). Ethnic Hungarians are the single largest group accounting for 9.5 percent of the population.
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