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OSCE Centre concludes its project on civil procedural code in Turkmenistan
ASHGABAD 10 December 2003
ASHGABAD, 10 December 2003 - The final roundtable of a series of five on the draft of the civil procedural code of Turkmenistan ended today. The events were organized by the OSCE Centre, in co-operation with the Turkmen government and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit.
The project started in March 2003 and is part of the OSCE Centre's comprehensive approach to promoting a positive and constructive dialogue with the Turkmen government and to foster discussion on problems of major importance and interest for present-day Turkmen society such as legislation reform.
The roundtables stimulated discussion among judges, lawyers, civil servants and academics on different aspects of civil suits. They covered a broad range of issues such as legal philosophies underlying civil legislation, mandate and impartiality of judges, rights of the parties of action, transparency of law suits, taking evidence, cassation and mediation, commercial arbitration and mediation and the role of the procuracy in the legal tradition of Western Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and countries in transition in general.
The topics were introduced by legal experts from Germany, Russia and Turkmenistan with notable academic experience and practice, among them Rolf Knieper, Professor for Civil and Commercial Law at Bremen University and Head of the GTZ project for legal reforms and Sergey Nikolayevich Lebedev, Head of the Private International and Civil Law Department of the Institute for International Relations in Moscow and Chairman of the Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Participants included representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education and Justice, the Mejlis (Parliament), the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights and the Lawyers Association. The participants came from the capital as well as the welayats.
The project started in March 2003 and is part of the OSCE Centre's comprehensive approach to promoting a positive and constructive dialogue with the Turkmen government and to foster discussion on problems of major importance and interest for present-day Turkmen society such as legislation reform.
The roundtables stimulated discussion among judges, lawyers, civil servants and academics on different aspects of civil suits. They covered a broad range of issues such as legal philosophies underlying civil legislation, mandate and impartiality of judges, rights of the parties of action, transparency of law suits, taking evidence, cassation and mediation, commercial arbitration and mediation and the role of the procuracy in the legal tradition of Western Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and countries in transition in general.
The topics were introduced by legal experts from Germany, Russia and Turkmenistan with notable academic experience and practice, among them Rolf Knieper, Professor for Civil and Commercial Law at Bremen University and Head of the GTZ project for legal reforms and Sergey Nikolayevich Lebedev, Head of the Private International and Civil Law Department of the Institute for International Relations in Moscow and Chairman of the Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Participants included representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education and Justice, the Mejlis (Parliament), the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights and the Lawyers Association. The participants came from the capital as well as the welayats.