In order to ensure openness and legality of the judicial-investigative activities, as well
as to reduce costs and bureaucratic red tape, the systems of “electronic criminal case” and
“remote interrogation” are being introduced. The powers of lawyers in ensuring the rights
and freedoms of citizens have been expanded.
All of this is the result of our judicial and legal reforms.
At the same time, a truly democratic and transparent system of selection of candidates
for the position of judge, studying their personal and professional qualities should be created.
In particular, I consider it expedient to legislatively fix such a procedure, when
candidates for the position of judge are recommended taking into account public opinion.
It is necessary to introduce a system in which applicants who are deemed worthy will
undergo training for at least one year and be appointed to the position by trained judges. In
this view, I propose to organize the Higher School of Judges under the High Judicial Council.
Unfortunately, some judges still make decisions that do not meet the principles of
justice. Naturally, this undermines citizens’ confidence in justice.
Therefore, to improve their professional skills and culture, always be guided by the law,
the principles of justice and humanism – these are the main tasks of each judge.
Every decision made by the courts should be, above all, fair, lawful and justified. Only
then will people be firmly convinced that justice will prevail in any situation.
This year, the tasks and powers of state security agencies have been completely
revised, an objective assessment of the activities of employees at all levels has been given.
For the first time, the Law «On the State Security Service» was adopted, according to
which the main task of the newly formed special service is to provide reliable protection of
the interests of the state from internal and external threats.
In the present alarming times, when threats of extremism and terrorism persist,
encroachments on the constitutional order and the economic foundations of our country,
brave soldiers and officers of the State Security Service must ruthlessly fight against any
destructive forces and be a reliable shield in defending our Motherland.
As you know, recently in order to check the combat training of the troops of the Ministry
of Defense, field exercises were conducted in the city of Chirchik. They clearly showed that
in the last two years a great work has been done to strengthen the defense power of our
country. We will continue this work on a systematic basis and on an even wider scale.
In addition, in order to ensure public order and the security of our citizens, a number of
effective measures have been taken to fully support the units of the internal troops and the
National Guard.
As a result of our efforts to protect public order and early warning of offenses, primarily
with the participation of the general public in this process, a 36 percent reduction in crime
has been achieved. Not a single crime was committed this year in 3 205 makhallas or in over
35 percent of existing ones.
In order to strengthen the achieved results, these issues, including the full
implementation of the projects “Safe City”, “Safe Territory”, will continue to be priorities for
the internal affairs agencies and the National Guard.
To ensure the right of free movement for citizens guaranteed by our Constitution,
difficulties in registration and obtaining visas have been eliminated.
Thanks to the simplification of the procedure for issuing visas to citizens of 39
countries, and the introduction of the electronic visa system this year almost 4 million foreign
tourists visited our country.
The citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan was granted to 2,528 persons who have
been living in our country for many years, making a worthy contribution to the development
of society and dreaming of becoming our compatriots.
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