Ader: Preserving linguistic, cultural diversity intl interest

Preserving linguistic and cultural diversity is an interest of all nations, President Janos Ader said at the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Tartu, Estonia, on Wednesday. Hungary was happy to join the initiative "because of our shared ancestry but also common fate" as millions of Hungarians have been living as minorities for a century, the president said. Out of the 90 languages spoken in the European Union, only 37 are official languages, and some 100 million of the bloc's citizens belong to ethnic minorities, he said.