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MODERNIZATION OF THE COUNTRY AND BUILDING A STRONG
CIVIL SOCIETY IS OUR MAIN PRIORITY
Address by President Islam Karimov at the joint
session of Legislative Chamber and the Senate of Oliy Majlis of the
Republic of Uzbekistan
Dear deputies!
Distinguished senators!
Dear friends!
It gives an enormous pleasure to cordially
congratulate you on the deserved victory in the elections and the high
level of trust, which has been rendered to you by voters and population
of the country.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I would
like to express to all of you, the elected representatives of people, my
enormous respect and confidence.
I am convinced that the trust, which has
rightly been rendered to you, - this is, firstly, the expression of
respect towards your personality, your knowledge, experience and
selfless labor, above all, the concrete contribution, which each of you
is making to the cause of further increasing authority and flourishing
of the country, well being and prosperity of our nation.
At the same time – this is the trust rendered
to the political party, the public movement, which you have represented
in the general elections.
I would like to underscore time and again that
this all, above all, the particular advance, which it will need to be
justified by each at this own working place by a concrete work, his
honest attitude towards fulfillment of the duty, which I hope you are
well realizing as the deputies of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of
Uzbekistan.
I would like to draw your attention yet to
another very important moment.
Your authority is the authority of the
Legislative Chamber and Senate, this is authority of the nation’s
Parliament, and finally, this is the authority of our country.
Distinguished friends!
I think, today at our joint session of the
Legislative Chamber and Senate of Oliy Majlis there is no need to speak
a lot about the elections to the Legislative Chamber, Jokargy Kenes of
Karakalpakstan and local Kengashes (Councils) that took place on
December 27, 2009, as well as the runoff elections to those bodies on
January 10, 2010.
The detailed and rather objective assessments
of these elections have already been given by both relevant authorized
structures and observers both inside the country and on the part of
accredited organizations and observers from abroad.
Above all, the state of general activeness of
voters, state of openness, transparency, observance of norms and
requirements of domestic and international legislation, which have taken
place in the elections, are noted in those assessments and commentaries,
which became yet as another confirmation of the fact that how truly
enormous steps our society has made for over the past years on the way
of democratic transformations, ensuring freedom of choice for everyone
and for establishing strong civil society.
Yet already the fact that practically about 30
percent out of the total number of deputies of the Legislative Chamber
and about 20 percent of the deputies, who have been elected to the local
Kengashes, went through the second round of voting speaks about a lot,
and above all, about how the elections were democratic.
The elections demonstrated the high
socio-political culture of the population, growing level of its
political and civil self-consciousness, its broad support of our
progressive advancement along the way of deepening reforming and
modernizing the country.
Most importantly, the elections have once again
demonstrated that all radical changes and transformations taking place
in our state – this is a process, which has acquired an irreversible
nature.
And yet there is another very important
conclusion, which we need to make, - these elections showed to what
extent those decisions made on time were right and efficient, in
particular, we have adopted the Constitutional Law “On strengthening the
role of political parties in the renewal and further democratization of
state governance and modernization of the country”, as well as
implemented measures to ensure so that the political parties, as they
participate and prove in the elections their competence, become in
practice the decisive force of deep transformations taking place in
Uzbekistan.
I think I shall not be mistaken if I say that
particularly such peculiarity made up the essence and main substance of
these elections, and without any doubt, will render a considerable
impact on raising efficiency of the nation’s parliamentary system.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to once
again congratulate and thank all our citizens, express the feelings of
deep respect to the entire nation that our country has successfully
withstood this tough political examination on the way of building our
deserved future.
Distinguished participants of the session!
Before starting to dwell on the issues related
to forthcoming activity of the newly elected Legislative Chamber and
Senate, it accords me a profound pleasure to express the words of a
sincere gratitude to the members of both chambers of Oliy Majlis, who
have relinquished their powers, for their work, for their honest labor,
for their substantial contribution to consolidating the might of our
country, as well as raising the prosperity and well being of our nation.
The activity of the country’s bicameral
parliament elected for the first time in 2004 coincided in its time with
the important period in our life notable for its deep transformations,
dynamic processes of consistent reforming and liberalizing all spheres
of political and socio-economic life, democratic renewal and
modernization of the country.
The previous make-up of parliament’s deputies
made an important contribution to resolution of all those priority tasks
set before Uzbekistan by adopting more than 250 laws of a profound
significance in deepening the socio-political and socio-economic reforms
being carried out in the country.
As we summarize the accomplished, today it can
be said that the main tasks in terms of establishing the lower chamber
of parliament as permanently functioning professional body, which
elaborates and adopts laws, and the upper chamber – the Senate as the
body of territorial representation, which fully and comprehensively
expresses the interests of regions, have been as a whole successfully
fulfilled. The quality and validity of legislative acts being passed
have substantially improved. The balance, consistency of national and
regional interests is being ensured more effectively.
The role and influence of political parties on
the activity of the highest representative body of the country,
representative bodies of power at the local levels have substantially
increased.
For the first time the parliamentary majority
has been formed in the Legislative Chamber – the Democratic bloc, which
brought together the factions of the Movement of entrepreneurs and
business people – the Liberal-Democratic Party, Democratic Party “Milliy
Tiklanish”, as well as the Social-Democratic Party “Adolat”. At the same
time, the parliamentary opposition has been formed represented by the
faction of the People’s-Democratic Party of Uzbekistan.
A special place was reserved in the lawmaking
activity of Oliy Majlis to the issues of normative and legal support of
structural transformations in the economy taking place in the country,
further creation of favorable investment climate, modernization,
technical re-equipment of production, as well as development of the
country’s banking and financial system.
During this period the entire package of
legislative acts has been adopted, which envisage the consolidation of
legal protection of private ownership, establishment of a powerful class
of owners in the country, consolidation of farming, ensuring further
liberalization of economy, creation of favorable conditions for
development of small business and entrepreneurship, as well as
establishment of a ramified market infrastructure.
The most important issues remained on the focus
of attention in terms of continuous growth of population’s incomes and
well being of the people, successful implementation of the large-scale
social programs.
Those and the whole number of other measures
aimed at legislative support of economic reforms promoted creating the
necessary legal maintenance of successful implementation of the
Anti-crisis program of measures for 2009-2012 directed to minimize the
negative consequences of the global financial and economic crisis,
allowed Uzbekistan, among other limited number of countries in the
world, to provide for sustainable growth rates of economy and increase
the real incomes of population.
The growth of the gross domestic product (GDP)
in the year 2009, which was not easy in all respects, made up 8,1
percent, industrial production – 9 percent, total amount of investments
increased by 26 percent, including the foreign investments – by 68
percent, - and all these serve as a confirmation of the aforementioned.
The positive balance in the foreign trade
turnover made up more than 2,3 billion dollars, the growth of average
salary made up 40 percent, and of the real incomes – 26,5 percent.
The parliament has substantially contributed to
the large-scale work being accomplished in the country to deeply reform
and liberalize the judicial and legal system, ensure in practice the
independence of judicial power. For over these five years 58 laws were
adopted in accordance with which further reforming of the judicial-legal
system has been carried out. The liberalization of the system of
criminal punishment has been accomplished.
The institute of advocacy has been reformed.
The system of executing the court decisions and the activity of
prosecutor’s office saw improvement; the number of other measures has
been taken aimed at consistent democratization of the entire judicial
and legal system.
The Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on
abolishing the death penalty in the country starting from January 1,
2008, as well as the Law on delegating the right to issue an arrest
warrant from prosecutor’s office to courts adopted in 2007 drew a wide
response in the entire world. With introducing the said measures one of
the most humane and liberal systems of criminal punishment in the world
has been formed in Uzbekistan.
Much has been accomplished in terms of
strengthening and developing the institutions of civil society,
developing the independent mass media – the most important component of
democratic reforms.
For over the last years about ten legislative
acts were adopted directly aimed at further democratizing and
liberalizing mass media, increasing their activeness in ensuring
glasnost and openness of socio-political and socio-economic reforms, as
well as introducing the latest information-communicational technologies
into the media space.
In July 2008 both chambers of Oliy Majlis of
the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted the joint resolution “On measures to
strengthen support of non-state non-profit organizations, other
institutions of civil society”. It became yet another important step on
the way of consistently ensuring the independent development of NGOs,
institutions of civil society, strengthening their role and significance
in democratic renewal of the country. The mentioned joint resolution
paved way for establishment of the independent system of forming sources
of financing the activity of NGOs and other institutions of civil
society based on democratic principles.
Distinguished participants of the session!
Assessing the achieved successes, along with
that I consider it necessary to note the unutilized reserves,
shortcomings and inadvertences in the activity of chambers of the
previous convocation. This is especially important to make today, when
the tasks and priorities of the activity of Oliy Majlis for the
forthcoming five-year period are being defined.
First, it is necessary to admit that one
of the big shortcomings in the activity of the Legislative Chamber is
the lack of the deeply and comprehensively elaborated program of
lawmaking set for a long-term perspective, closely linked with the
needs, course of socio-economic and socio-political reforms in the
country. This is one of the reasons that laws are frequently adopted
haphazardly once they are introduced by subjects of legislative
initiative.
Second, the passiveness and insufficient
activeness of the deputy corpse in terms of initiating and promoting
laws vitally necessary for implementing the dynamically developing
reforms in economic, political and humanitarian spheres serves as a
serious shortcoming. During the last five years from out of 297 draft
laws introduced into the Legislative Chamber only 44 draft laws have
been initiated by deputies. Along with that, 42 draft laws were
introduced directly by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, more
than 160 draft laws were introduced by the country’s government mostly
in the framework of fulfilling the decrees and resolutions of the
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Third, the quality of laws being adopted
requires radical improvement. Most of them have been directed to
introducing amendments, clarifications and addenda to the already passed
laws and were not of a codified nature. The draft laws included
discrepancies, doubling with acts adopted earlier and had many reference
rules. And most significant shortcoming is that the passed laws
frequently lack the procedural mechanisms that provide for
implementation of those acts of legislation, and this, in its turn,
considerably complicates their application, leads to non-fulfillment of
laws and legal nihilism, as well as decreasing of efficiency of the
law-enforcement practice.
Fourth, the forms of deputy-led control
and influence on improvement of the law-enforcement practice envisaged
by law have been poorly used. For over the entire period of functioning
of lower chamber just several parliamentary inquires (interpellations)
have been made, in particular, on the issues of introducing of
innovative technologies into production, accelerated construction of
enterprises of chemical industry and manufacturing new types of
products.
Fifth, the systemic work of a member of
parliament at his election district requires considerable improvement,
which would allow him to reveal how the passed laws are working, in
which laws today the practice of economic construction feels the need,
what problems his voters are dealing with and what needs to be done to
resolve them. Suffice it to say that the “Procedure of organizing
activity of a deputy of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of the
Republic of Uzbekistan in the election district” was elaborated and
approved by chamber only in May 2008, i.e. in the fourth year of
functioning of parliament. The work itself was mainly related to holding
the meetings, which, as the analysis reveals, frequently were of a
formal nature and were just limited to answers to the incoming
complaints and questions.
Sixth, especially in the beginning of
practical activity of upper and lower chambers the serious problems
occurred related mostly to demonstration of ambitions from both sides,
and nevertheless those contradictions have negatively impacted the
quality and terms of adoption of legislative acts.
Speaking briefly, it was difficult to provide
for functioning of each particular chamber as an independent and
mandatory component of the lawmaking process accomplished by Oliy Majlis
– the highest legislative body of Uzbekistan.
It is fully natural and logical that during
fulfilling the functions and powers laid on each of the chambers there
may emerge various differences and contradictions between them.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I would
like to underscore that the Senate, its members are not vested with a
right of legislative initiative. The Senate is a representative body and
its considerable part, while serving as the deputies of regional, city
and district Kengashes of people’s deputies, are their authorized
representatives at the highest legislative body of the country and are
accountable to them.
And therefore it is fully logical that in their
activity and in considering the draft laws and making decisions, while
guided by, firstly, the nationwide interests, they consider those bills
through the prism of interests of territories and regions.
And therefore the cases of rejection by Senate
of some law, the discussions which emerge in the framework of
conciliation commissions of upper and lower chamber on the essence and
substance of proposed drafts, we must consider as normal and healthy
form of work of a democratic parliament.
Dear deputies and senators!
As we exactingly and critically assess the work
of Oliy Majlis for over the past period we must clearly realize that
without eradicating the shortcomings, overcoming inertness and inertia
in the work of parliament, the deputies will not be able to effectively
resolve the tasks set before them, fulfill the high promises, which were
given to voters during the elections.
Moreover, it must be obvious for all that the
newly elected parliament will have to work in qualitatively new
political and socio-economic conditions.
At the moment, the country faces the tasks
enormous on their scale and depth in the sphere of state and social
construction. Given the complex conditions stipulated by continuing
global financial and economic crisis we will have to ensure further
sustainable development of economy, continue the work on its
diversification, modernization and technical re-equipment of production.
In the tough geopolitical conditions unfolding in the region and the
world as a whole, we will have to resolve the tasks of ensuring
security, stability of the country, preserving peace in our land and the
whole number of other responsible and large-scale tasks on successful
accomplishment of which depend today and the future of our country and
our children.
As it is known for everyone, it has already
been for 30 years that the military conflict has been continuing in the
neighboring Afghanistan. When the tense situation remains in one of the
states of the region, naturally there exists a threat to peace and
security in the entire region, as well.
From the most authoritative international
rostrums Uzbekistan put forward the practical initiatives on addressing
this conflict. In particular, at the NATO/EAPC summit in Bucharest in
April 2008 the President of Uzbekistan for the first time enunciated the
view that the Afghan problem cannot be resolved only by military tools.
In addressing the conflict in Afghanistan we have put forward the
initiative to transform the Contact Group “6+2” into “6+3”, bearing in
mind the participation in it of the U.S., Russia and representatives of
NATO along with the countries neighboring on Afghanistan.
And in fact, billions and billions of dollars
have been spent for over the thirty years to resolve the Afghan problem.
Today it becomes obvious the need to radically change the approach to
settling the situation in this country.
It is very important to ensure respect towards
the national customs, culture and religious values of the multinational
and multi-faith people of Afghanistan.
As it is known, soon London will host the
international conference on this problem. A number of states that
participate in this conference express the view about the impossibility
of addressing the conflict in Afghanistan by military ways, which does
confirm the rightness of Uzbekistan’s stance on this issue.
In order to establish peace and stability on
the long-suffering Afghan soil the international community must, above
all, render a targeted economic, financial, social and humanitarian
assistance, which must be accomplished under auspices of the United
Nations.
Today many states of the world render such
assistance to Afghanistan. It is natural that the neighboring countries
to a bigger extent are interested in ensuring peace and stability in
Afghanistan. Uzbekistan as the closest neighbor also renders a
substantial assistance to Afghanistan.
In particular, starting from 2010 the amount of
electrical power supplied by us to Afghanistan increased to 6 times as
compared with previous years.
These days the constructors and specialists of
Uzbekistan are starting the work on laying the railroad line
Termez-Khairaton-Mazari-Shareef. I am confident that it will be finished
by the end of this year.
In a word, our parliament also must make its
own contribution to strengthening peace and stability in the region.
Dear friends!
All of the aforementioned will require the
parliament the high level of initiative, continuous search for ways of
increasing the efficiency of the lawmaking activity, and each and every
deputy and political party, above all, fulfilling the commitments
shouldered by them in the elections.
I think there is no need today to speak about
how important it is in establishing the law-governed state, which we are
building, the soonest filling in the gaps and “blank spots” in the
legislative and normative basis, how serious changes requires the
law-enforcement practice, betterment of work of the law-enforcement and
judicial bodies in observing Law and once again Law.
In this, we must clearly realize that ensuring
the economic growth, achieving the high living standards of people,
resolving other tasks in socio-economic, socio-political sphere will
depend on successful accomplishment of one most important task. This
task is about to quickly and effectively moving along deepening the
democratic reforms and liberalizing economy, building the strong civil
society.
I think that in the process of preparation the
concrete program of the forthcoming work both in the Legislative Chamber
and the Senate all of these tasks will be taken into account and
concretely improved.
The following most important key issues, as I
deeply believe, must remain on the focus of our attention.
First, I would like to firmly state from this
high rostrum that we will not be able to achieve the high goals in terms
of modernization the country if we are not to ensure the coordinated and
deep correlation of processes of reforming economy and social sphere
with permanent renewal of the socio-political and judicial-legal system.
The issues of further strengthening the role of
parliament in socio-political life of the country must remain on the
focus of our attention in line with the Constitutional principle of
separation of powers.
The most important place in implementing this
task belongs to development of a multi-party system, increasing the
activeness of political parties and intensification of a competitive
struggle between them.
The essence of the task which we must set
before us is that the pre-election inter-party struggle, the clash of
ideas and programs, which took place in establishing the new make-up of
the parliament, should continue and intensify during the daily
parliamentary activity. Figuratively speaking, the clashes of ideas and
programs must take place particularly in the parliamentary arena, and
through such struggle the goals which each party sets before itself must
be achieved.
I am convinced as more heated and stronger the
competition will be between various political factions in the
Legislative Chamber, so there will be more guarantees of that the ideas
of each party that represents the interests of certain social forces and
layers, its program tasks are going to be successfully realized.
Certainly, all of this will promote the growth of quality of laws,
growth of authority of the parliament, its impact on the processes
taking place in the country.
The inter-party discussions must be led on
serious, professional and substantial basis. Therefore indeed the
political parties need to concentrate on deeper studies of
socio-economic issues that are of a concern to their constituencies,
elaboration and implementation of measures in terms of their resolution.
The time has come to go from the general
elaborations on “political support of the strategic course of the
country’s leadership to carry out reforms” towards concrete actions,
proposing deeply thought-out, including alternative, competitive
projects and programs that reflect the purposeful tasks of each
particular party or movement.
It is important to reveal the serious
shortcomings and oversights at the local levels, which hamper increasing
the social efficiency of reforms, hold their open, transparent and
constructive discussion, undertake a substantial criticism of heads of
bodies of state, economic management, controlling and law-enforcement
system, who each at their own place are failing to deal with obligations
laid on them.
It is necessary to broader use modern methods
of work with constituencies, generally recognized political technologies
and turn the party-issued print into the arena of bitter inter-party
discussions.
The second most important task of the
parliament, local representative bodies of power – Kengashes – is to
conduct the strict parliamentary, deputy-led control of how the
executive power, government in the center and khokimiyats (governor’s
and mayor’s offices) at the local levels implement laws passed by
parliament.
It should be directly admitted that such work,
unfortunately, is poorly organized in the Legislative Chamber and the
Senate. Yet so far the Legislative Chamber and the Senate infrequently
hear and discuss the information on implementation of laws, most
important state programs in the relevant branches on the part of Prime
Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan and his deputies, heads of
ministries, agencies, committees and other executive structures.
As the results of study show, those
parliamentary hearings were of a general and mostly informative nature
with poor determination of positions by particular committees or
commissions on the considered issues, some programs, documents with
concrete and comprehensively elaborated recommendations have not been
passed.
In the upcoming period it is necessary to take
all necessary measures in terms of broader application in the center and
at the local levels of the legal norms and mechanisms of controlling
powers of the legislative power as envisaged by law.
Hearing of heads of state structures on the
state of affairs related to implementation of acts of legislation at the
branches entrusted to them must become a daily form of parliamentary
activity.
The practice of hearing the information of
heads of executive power should be expanded, in particular, of the
members of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, on
the state of affairs, law-enforcement practice in the spheres of
activity they oversee.
In particular, in conducting the parliamentary
control a special attention should be paid to the measures in terms of
decreasing the groundless interference of state structures with the
sphere of economy.
A special attention should be paid to the
issues of implementation of the Anti-crisis program of measures for
2009-2012, entire complex of measures envisaged in it with regard to
ensuring sustainable development of the socio-economic sphere and
stability in the country.
It is necessary to broader use such forms of
parliamentary control as parliamentary inquiry, parliamentary hearings
and other forms of parliamentary activity envisioned by law.
Substantial explanation, giving comprehensive
elucidations on the issues raised in the parliamentary inquiry is a
direct duty of officials of bodies of state power and management.
The responsibility for its implementation must
be laid on the heads of bodies of state power of all levels and the
prosecutor’s office.
Successful implementation of the task in terms
of reinforcing the parliamentary control over executive power
substantially depends on the broad participation of mass media and
public in this work.
The big and responsible tasks lay ahead before
the party press which it should be noted with regret yet continues to
remain, speaking simple, the insipid.
The most important task must be as follows: the
parliament must become a conductor of democratic transformations,
liberal reforms directed to establishing the strong civil society.
The life itself more insistently puts on the
agenda the issue related to intensifying the work in terms of
implementing the Program “From a strong state towards a strong civil
society”, the essence and substance of which is as follows: as we
continue to carry out the social-economic, socio-political reforms, the
model of state and social construction that we chose, the task of
strengthening the role of citizens in governing the country becomes
important, which in practice it means further development of the entire
system of institutions of civil society, its harmonious integration with
governance of the country and administrative-territorial units.
The organizational and legal conditions should
be fully used to have an active influence by political parties on
forming the bodies of executive power in the center and the local
levels. With these goals it is necessary to intensify the activity of
the party groups at the local Kengashes of people’s deputies, increase
the party influence on the work of executive structures of all levels in
resolving the concrete tasks of socio-economic development of regions.
I consider it important direction of
legislative activity the further development of normative and legal
basis of the activity of civil and public institutions, non-state and
non-profit organizations so that they could secure their own niche in
the system of decisionmaking, upholding interests of particular layers
and structures of society whom they represent.
In this respect the big and responsible tasks
lay ahead before the deputies of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis
of the Republic of Uzbekistan elected from the Ecological movement of
Uzbekistan, which now unites more than 100 core NGOs. The deputies from
this movement are called upon to promote further development of
legislation in the sphere of environment protection, organization of
systemic work in terms of increasing accountability of bodies of state
power in the center and the local levels, as well as various public and
other structures on unconditional implementation of the documents, which
have already been passed in this sphere.
It ought to be firmly and clearly learned a
simple truth – from now on the Ecological movement of Uzbekistan steps
onto a qualitatively new level, acquires enormous opportunities so that
from the high rostrum of a deputy to put forward and control the issues
of environmental protection, shield the human and country’s population
from dangerous and aggressive changes of ecology.
The improvement of legislation aimed at
expanding the rights, powers of institutions of civil society, including
the citizens’ self-governance bodies, in the system of social and state
construction must become a priority direction.
Today the makhalla (neighborhood community
area) is an important factor of the timely and successful resolution of
acute issues of citizens at the local levels and upholding their
interests. The contribution of makhalla into resolution of issues of
spiritual and moral upbringing of citizens, youth, effective functioning
of the social sphere, providing for public security and order at the
local levels grows.
In this respect, improvement of the legal basis
of activity of makhalla, expansion of its powers, mechanisms of
effective functioning is our priority task.
It is important to continue work to turn
makhalla into the center of targeted social support of population,
development of private entrepreneurship and family business.
It is necessary to envisage further expansion
of functions of makhalla in the system of public control over the
activity of management bodies; ensure closer interaction of bodies of
state power and management with citizens’ self-governance bodies with a
view of broader informing public about the implementation of state
social programs at the local levels.
The ever growing significance and role of
makhalla in addressing the acute issues of citizens, ensuring the social
activeness of citizens requires further improvement of the system of
elections of chairmen (aksakals) of citizens’ gatherings and their
advisors, which provides for election as aksakals and their advisors of
the most deserved citizens.
Today the life itself unambiguously sets before
us the task in terms of consolidating the place and role of mass media
in the system of institutions of civil society. Further liberalization
of mass media, intensification of activity of non-state outlets of
press, radio, television and expansion of their access to the global
network of Internet must provide for glasnost and openness of the policy
of reforms being carried out in the country, promote consistent
establishment of a strong civil society.
For this it is necessary to ensure further
betterment of legislation in the sphere of mass media, which must create
conditions for consistent growth of quality, mastery and efficiency of
our national press to the level of high requirements and criteria of the
developed world mass media.
It is necessary to create additional conditions
for more active coverage by mass media of the foreign and internal
policy conducted by the country with taking into account the pluralism
of views and events taking place in the country and abroad.
It is important to ensure further development
of normative and legal basis of activity of ever more expanding network
of non-state media outlets, protection of copyright and intellectual
ownership, as well as introduction of market mechanisms into the
informational sphere.
The issues of creating the normative and legal
mechanisms directed to further consolidation of material and technical
basis of mass media, as well as material and moral stimulation of work
of their employees take on outstanding significance. The worthy
appraisal of the work of employees of the sphere, their material and
moral stimulation presuppose both increasing independence and freedom of
editorial offices of newspapers and magazines and their accountability.
Dear friends!
During the last elections our people cast their
votes for consolidation of peace and stability in the country, deepening
of market relations, modernization, democratization of socio-political
life, as well as for peace-loving foreign policy. Today the nation looks
with confidence and hope on the deputies, whom it has elected, for all
those, who bear a special responsibility for the fate of reforms.
Dear friends, be worthy the high confidence of
the people. I wish you a sound health, strength and luck in the activity
of a deputy, as well as happiness and well being to your families.
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