according to their age and life circumstances. In that regard, the Assembly calls upon member States to implement the decisions agreed upon in Resolution 2529 (2024) and Recommendation 2265 (2024) “Situation of the children of Ukraine”.

24. States should give immediate priority to ensuring the teaching of the Ukrainian language for Ukrainianchildren in educational institutions, given the role played by language in supporting national identity. Statesshould enhance the capacity of their education systems to allow for the integration of Ukrainian pupils andstudents into the European education system, enabling the mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas.Co-operation must be enhanced to ensure recognition of the results obtained in the Ukrainian educationsystem in European countries, at an equivalent level. In case of discrepancies in educational programs,States could provide additional courses to reach a comparable level thereby enabling the recognition ofeducation obtained in Ukraine.

25. States can foster technical co-operation between experts from the Council of Europe member States inorder to finetune policies and practices for the protection of the rights of children of Ukraine residing on theirterritory, including by taking part in the work of the Council of Europe Consultation Group on the Children ofUkraine. The Consultation Group was established following up the Reykjavík Declaration “United around ourvalues” adopted at the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe on 16-17 May2023.

26. Moreover, as regards support for Ukraine’s elderly people living abroad, the Assembly notes that manyelderly people had to flee Ukraine and are now living abroad, in a situation of extreme vulnerability. Whilerecognising the additional demands this places on the social security systems of host countries, the Assemblyconsiders that States can identify the means to support vulnerable elderly Ukrainians, as recommended bythe European Union Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC (article 13), which stipulates that “TheMember States shall make provision for persons enjoying temporary protection to receive necessaryassistance in terms of social welfare and means of subsistence, if they do not have sufficient resources, aswell as for medical care. … the assistance necessary for medical care shall include at least emergency careand essential treatment of illness.”

27. Granting Ukrainian pensioners the status of a pensioner in the host country with the provision of thenecessary social welfare support, albeit temporarily, would allow for dignified living for those who suffer severehardship, having lost all their livelihoods and having no time, energy or resources to recover and rebuild theirlives from scratch.

28. Helping Ukraine’s older generation would also facilitate the transmission of culture and identity to theyounger generation. Without such efforts, the younger Ukrainians now living outside the country may losetheir ties with their home, weakening the future of Ukraine after the war has ended. More should be done,therefore, to promote the inter-generational solidarity to help Ukraine stand strong for the years to come.

29. With regard to mirroring EU actions in the non-EU Council of Europe member States, the Assemblynotes the efforts to welcome the externally displaced persons in those non-European Union Council of Europemember States which provided immediate protection and temporary shelter for hundreds of thousands ofUkrainians, despite the challenges that many of these countries face in terms of emergency housing capacityor relief support. The Assembly welcomes the participation of non-European Union member States in thecontinued relief work and refugee resettlement schemes, finding appropriate solutions for millions of Ukrainianpeople displaced beyond the European Union.

30. With regard to facilitating return and resettlement, the Assembly recommends that specific actions betaken to prepare a return to Ukraine after the war, as referred to in the European Union Temporary ProtectionDirective 2001/55/EC (Article 21), which states that the “Member States shall take the measures necessary tomake possible the voluntary return of persons enjoying temporary protection or whose temporary protectionhas ended. The Member States shall ensure that the provisions governing voluntary return of personsenjoying temporary protection facilitate their return with respect for human dignity”.

31. The Assembly notes that the return of displaced persons to their homes cannot happen overnight andmay require years of preparation, which should start already now. Return will certainly involve the provision offinancial assistance for resettlement, and the question of resettlement and re-integration allowances over agiven period will need to be settled.

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