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Participation of the Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Kryvenko in the international scientific and practical conference
On August 29–30, 2017 Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Kryvenko took part in the international scientific and practical conference "The Constitution and Modernisation of Society and State" and solemn events dedicated to the Constitution Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan, held in Astana.
The conference was organised by the Constitutional Council, the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice, the National Centre for Human Rights of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Akimat of Astana, jointly with L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University and the KAZGUU University with the participation of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission), the Office of OSCE Programs in Astana and the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (GIZ).
The State Secretary of the 
Republic of Kazakhstan, People’s Deputies of the Parliament, the first leaders of the state bodies of Kazakhstan, as well as well-known domestic and foreign scholars took part in the conference.
Among the participants of the forum there were delegations of authoritative international organisations – the UN, the OSCE, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation, the International Union of Lawyers, as well as representatives of constitutional control bodies, courts and human rights institutions of the 14 countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
The conference was opened by the Chairman of the Constitutional Council Igor Rogov. Gulshara Abdykalykova, State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, delivered a welcoming speech on behalf of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the conference, Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Kryvenko delivered the report on "The Role of the Bodies of Constitutional Jurisdiction in the Protection of Civil Rights and Freedoms under the Conditions of Constitutional Reform."
Addressing the audience, Viktor Kryvenko congratulated the Kazakh colleagues on the outstanding state holiday – the Constitution Day in "the life united by the common historical destiny of the friendly Kazakh people who created their statehood on the ancient Kazakh land".
Concluding the speech, Mr. Kryvenko noted that the constitutionalists of Ukraine and Republic of Kazakhstan had repeatedly exchanged experience during the scientific and practical conferences, and expressed hope for further fruitful cooperation between the two countries in this area.
The conference participants came to a common opinion that the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a form of reflecting the laws of the development of society and the state, was subjected to modernisation of transformations and challenges, adequately taking place within the country and the global legal space. These successes became possible due to the clearly verified concept of the constitutional development of the country, authored by the founder of the new independent state of the Republic of Kazakhstan, N.A. Nazarbayev, which provides for an accelerated upward movement, the unity of the people, harmony and stability in society.
