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- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!ryyti
- From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
- Subject: The swedenfinns, a discriminated minority in Sweden
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.115719.12641@jyu.fi>
- Sender: Jarmo Ryyti
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
- References: <C1BKqu.GIE@ais.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:57:19 GMT
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- The Central Organization of the Finns in Sweden has sent a letter to
- prime minister Carl Bildt, where the Finns demand as soon as possible
- Swedish governement to undersign The Treaty of Protecting Lingual
- Minorities of Council of Europe. Singning The Treaty would guarantee
- for the Finnish language a minority language status. The Central Organi-
- zation reminds, that there are 320 000 Finnish speaking people living
- in Sweden and a half a million Finns immigrated to Sweden during the
- latest immigration wave.
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- jr
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