Original sentence: Despite the 1997 treaty with Romania, which among others requires the two countries to respect each others minorities, Ukraine has continued to close down Romanian schools , while reports show that Romanian recruits in the Ukrainian army are systematically persecuted and humiliated.However, the census respondents were free to choose their ethnicity from the offered to them choices as they wished or not to respond at all and no challenges to the census being free and fair where ever raised in connection with the Romanian or Moldavian minorities.The results of Ukrainian census include Romanians and Moldavians as two separate minorities
Edited sentence: Dispite the 1997 treaty with Romania, which among others requires the two countries to respect each others minorities, Ukraine has continued to close down Romanian schools, while reports show that Romanian recruits in the Ukrainain army are systematically persecuted and humiliated.The Ukrainian government likewise divides its Romanian minority into Romanians and Moldovans, something which is perceived as an attempt to downplay the importance of Romanian culture in Ukraine