Committee for combating corruption holds its first meeting 

The first organizational meeting of the new Committee for Combating Corruption and judicial-legal issues was held at the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis, the press service of the lower house of parliament reported.

The committee is entrusted with a number of such tasks as exercising parliamentary control over formation and implementation of state anti-corruption programs in state bodies and institutions, preparing proposals for improving the legislation on combating corruption, and also analyzing the existing acts of legislation in order to identify provisions and norms that create conditions for corruption.

“Results of the ongoing reforms in all spheres are based on the level at which legal documents are clearly regulated - how they were prepared in due time without manifestation of corruption norms in them,” chairman of the Committee for combating corruption and judicial-legal issues Tulkin Abdusattarov said. “In this sense, the newly created committee, while carrying out the tasks assigned to it, will pay attention to effectiveness of parliamentary control”.

In particular, the tasks of monitoring the implementation of adopted laws and resolutions of the Legislative Chamber in the sphere of state and public construction, combating corruption and judicial-legal issues, studying the law enforcement practice of state bodies and non-governmental non-profit organizations in the sphere of counteracting are defined as tasks of the new anticorruption committee.

As the deputy of the Legislative Chamber Sherzod Tukhtashev noted, holding parliamentary hearings on the activities of government officials in the sphere of combating corruption at a meeting of the Committee, considering appeals of individuals and legal entities, other materials on corruption and combating corruption, informing other parliamentarians about their activities in the field of combating corruption also were identified as the main tasks of the committee.

“I think that fighting against corruption at the level of parliament will give a positive result as each state body, currently, has its own internal anti-corruption programs. Implementation of parliamentary control over the effective implementation of these programs will assist in ensuring the reforms initiated in this area by the country's president,” the head of the department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Azam Eraliyev.

It should be recalled that President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, in his report at a meeting devoted to the 26th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution, stressed the need to create anti-corruption committees in the chambers of Oliy Majlis.