Turkmen parliamentarians discuss legal review mechanisms during OSCE-organized visit to Denmark
COPENHAGEN, 2 October 2015 – An OSCE-organized study visit of Turkmen parliamentarians to Copenhagen, with the aim of exchanging legislative practices, concludes tomorrow on 3 October 2015.
During the visit, which was organized in close co-operation with the Parliament of Denmark, members of the Mejlis (parliament) and an official from the National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan learned about the practical aspects of legislative drafting in Denmark, its substance and concrete procedures, as well as the contemporary techniques of analyzing legislation on an article-by-article basis.
“The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat welcomes the efforts of the government of Turkmenistan to conduct large-scale legal reform in the country and bring national legislation in line with the universally recognized standards of international law,” said Vardon Deniz Hoca, Human Dimension Officer at the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat. “The study visit is a follow up to the Centre’s activities to support legal reform in Turkmenistan and we hope it will have an added value as Turkmenistan has also embarked on the Constitutional reform.”
During the visit, the delegation members visited the Parliament of Denmark where they discussed relevant national legislation and legal review practices with their counterparts. They had a meeting with lawyers assisting the preparation of legislation and exchanged with them views on legislative practices.
the Turkmen delegation visited the University of Copenhagen, the Centre of World Cultures and the International Secretariat of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA)where they discussed inter-parliamentary co-operation with the OSCE PA .
On a visit to Malmo, Sweden, the delegation from Turkmenistan met with the mayor of the city and deliberated on the legislative process at the municipal level.