President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today met with members of the constitutional commission to formulate proposals for amending the country's Constitution. According to the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov, at the beginning of the meeting, Shavkat Mirziyoyev answered questions about why a constitutional reform was needed right now and what it would offer to an ordinary person.
Answering the first question, the president, “as a member of the commission who participated in the adoption of our current Basic Law,” agreed that Uzbekistan’s Constitution fully meets the best foreign experience and international standards. "There is no doubt about that."
“Uzbekistan’s Constitution is a solid foundation for all our achievements over the years of independence,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev. At the same time, "the current dangerous times, the difficult situation around us requires that we treat the fate of our Motherland with even greater responsibility and make urgent strategic decisions."
The President stressed that the mindset the Uzbek people had changed a lot in the six years since the change of the country's leadership.
“The humanity has entered the new scientific and technological stage. Radical transformation processes and competition are intensifying in the world. The peoples and states who care for tomorrow are seriously thinking about their future today as never before,” he said.
He put forward questions: “What is the place and value of a person in our state and society at such a decisive time and in the future? What political, legal, economic, social, spiritual and humanitarian principles, values and interests will be a priority for us? And most importantly - what will the constitutional reforms give to the ordinary population, the well-being of our people, the development of our society and state?
The answers to these questions should be reflected in the Constitution through carefully developed legal norms, this is the requirement of the time, Shavkat Mirziyoyev emphasized.
“The updated Constitution should create a solid legal basis and a reliable guarantee of long-term development strategies for our country, a prosperous tomorrow for our people as a whole,” he said.
The first axis of reforms of the Constitution is “the every individual, his life, freedoms, honor and dignity, inviolable rights and interests”.
The President stated that the idea "In the name of human dignity" and the main principle of the current stage of development "Man - Society - States" should be deeply integrated into the essence of the Constitution and become the main value in practice.
“From now on, the honor and dignity of a person should be in the first place in all areas,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
“Society and the state develop steadily in harmony only when a person receives upbringing and education in decent conditions, lives a prosperous life ... A person is not a means to achieve a goal for the state and society, on the contrary, the main essence and source of this goal and the highest value,” he declared.
“In the New Uzbekistan we are creating, human dignity and human interests are above all! Therefore, the promotion of human dignity should in fact be a constitutional duty and a priority task of state authorities,” the President said.
