An international round table conversation has taken place in Tashkent on the subject of topical issues of improving the way the Constitutional Court conducts its work.
The event was arranged in cooperation with the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the OSCE project coordinator in Uzbekistan. Members of the Legislative Chamber and Senate of Oliy Majlis (parliament) of the Republic of Uzbekistan, officials of judicial and law enforcement bodies, foreign experts, legal scholars and representatives of international organizations and public associations took part in the round table discussion.
The chairman of the Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan, B.Mirboboyev; the chairman of the democratic institutions, nongovernmental organizations and citizens’ local self-government bodies committee of the lower chamber of the parliament, A. Saidov, and others have said that in the process of implementing wide-ranging reforms directed towards society democratization and liberalization under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, special attention is being given to conducting consistent reforms of the judicial-legal system, to strengthening courts’ independence and to ensuring the system’s productive work.
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan has a special role in the process of modernizing the country’s legal system. Large-scale work is in progress on consistently improving the Constitutional Court’s activities, modernizing and democratizing the administration of justice, ensuring the openness and transparency of the constitutional judicial justice system and strengthening the effective protection of human rights and liberties.
During the round-table discussion, it was emphasized that the work of the country’s Constitutional Court was aimed at ensuring the observance of the norms and principles of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan and human rights and liberties firmly enshrined in it.
The Constitutional Court is consistently ensuring the supremacy of the main law and its principles in determining regulatory legal documents’ conformity with the main law, in interpreting norms of the constitution and laws and in exercising the right of legislative initiative.
Participants in the event exchanged views on the constitutional-legal status of the Constitutional Court, its place in the state administrative system, its role in ensuring the supremacy of the constitution and in protecting human rights and liberties as well as on issues of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the constitutional judicial justice system.
“The constitutional court plays an important role in ensuring the observance of the norms and principles of the main law,” Filip Dimitrov, a judge of the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria, said.
In the opinion of experts, a constitutional justice system is an important feature of a law-governed democratic state. Ensuring the supremacy of the main law and strengthening the rule of law are a reliable guarantee of human rights and liberties.
During the event, speeches were heard on the further democratization and liberalization of the judicial-legal system, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Constitutional Court, improving laws governing this sphere by taking into account advanced foreign experience, further stepping up cooperation between prosecutors’ offices and the Constitutional Court when it carries out its tasks, strengthening cooperation with the ombudsman in protecting citizens’ rights and liberties as well as legitimate interests and on organizational-legal forms of the administration of constitutional justice.
