Egyptian media highlights priority directions of constitutional reforms in Uzbekistan

The article notes that in the book of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev “New Uzbekistan Development Strategy”, important tasks are set that bring democratic reforms to a higher qualitatively new level. It orients the system of legislation, legal understanding and law enforcement, the political and legal consciousness of society towards universal human values and principles of sustainable development. It provides for the definition of constitutional norms and rules, which will correspond to the New Uzbekistan.

According to the publication, priority directions for constitutional reforms have been identified in Uzbekistan. Among them are such as changing the previously existing paradigm “state – society – person” to a new one: “person – society – state”, fixing it in constitutional legislation and constitutional practice, ensuring human interests in the process of economic reforms, constitutional consolidation of the role and status institutions of civil society, the principle “Society is the initiator of reforms”, the introduction of special environmental sections into the Constitution, legal norms relating to global climate change, and others.

“The current rapidly changing reality requires Uzbekistan to take actions and changes consonant with it in order to have a Constitution that meets the dictates of the time,” the publication concludes.