Monday, September 26 2016 12:40

ArmInfo. On September 23, 2016  a briefing devoted to the adoption of the new edition of the  Constitution of Turkmenistan was held at the Turkmen National  Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under President of  Turkmenistan. The briefing was organized by the Ministry of Foreign  Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan, and  the Turkmen National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under  President of Turkmenistan, according to the Embassy of Turkmenistan  to the Republic of Armenia. 

Representatives of Embassies and International Organizations, foreign  mass media accredited in Turkmenistan, Chief Editors of newspapers  and magazines of Turkmenistan, as well as Professors and students of  International Journalism Faculty of the Institute of International  Relations of the MFA of Turkmenistan participated in the briefing.

At the briefing Members of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan and  representatives of the Turkmen National Institute for Democracy and  Human Rights and the Institute of State and Law under President of  Turkmenistan highlighted to the briefing' participants the details of  the new legal norms introduced to the Constitution for the first  time.

In particular, many innovative legal norms have been introduced to  the text of the Constitution: on regulation of economic activity in  the interests of human being and society (Article 13); on  facilitating development of science, engineering and technology  (Article 16); on recognition of political diversity and multi party  system (Article 17).

Special emphasis was made on such new norms as annual President's  messages to people and Mejlis of Turkmenistan on state of the country  and on establishment of the Institute of Ombudsman on Human Rights.

Speakers specifically underscored that the Constitution of  Turkmenistan, being the Main Law of the state and society, expresses  common will of our multinational country, has supreme legal force and  confers to most important principles and institutes of social and  economic, public and political, as well as spiritual and moral life  of society.

In the form of dialogue, question were asked, exchange of opinions  took place, and it was once again emphasized that this Constitution  to the full extent corresponds with commonly recognized norms of  international right with regards to ensuring human rights and  individual freedoms in contemporary world.