At the Meeting of Defence, Security and Anti-Corruption Committee
The first autumn-session meeting of the Defence, Security and Anti-Corruption Committee was held on 16 September.
At first, the meeting participants had a minute of silence in memoriam the military servicemen fallen in the prevention of the latest Armenian border provocation.
The committee chairman Ziyafet Asgarov wished the shahids’ souls would rest in peace and their friends and families have endurance; he also sent his soon recovery wishes to those wounded in combat.
Next, Mr Asgarov said that the agenda contained 7 items with the first one concerning the performance report of the committee about the spring and extraordinary parliamentary sessions of last year during which there had been 13 committee meetings. Mr Asgarov underscored the significance of the legislative acts passed then.
The committee had received 125 applications and complaints in the reported period. Steps had been taken to resolve the problems referenced in those; 84 letters had been sent to appropriate authorities and departments.
After that they looked at the 2022 autumn-session work plan of the committee. It was said that, besides perusal of incoming draft laws, it was also planned to consider the Military Personnel’s Status Bill.
The committee members Elman Mammadov and Bakhtiyar Sadigov voiced their ideas about the agenda items; then, the performance report was approved as acceptable and the work plan was adopted for prosecution.
That took them to the first-reading legislative amendments, also tabled by Ziyafet Asgarov who said that the next three agenda items were the amendments, submitted to the Milli Majlis by President Aliyev, to the laws ‘On the Compulsory State Insurance of the Military Personnel’, ‘On the Military Duty and Service’ and the Military Service Performance Charter (approved with the law No 377-IQ dated 3 October 1997). All those are prepared in line with Paragraph 4.2 2 of the 2020-2022 National Work Plan to Promote the Open Government (approved with the presidential decree dated 27 February 2020).
It follows from the said Paragraph 4.2 that, should a state authority have the documents or information required for the provision of the state services, such documents or information must be obtained via the Electronic State Information System without the applicant(s) for the aforementioned services being requested to produce same again. For this to become feasible this principle must be fixated in the area-specific regulatory acts and, on the other hand, more e-services based upon it must be made available. The amendments, when adopted, will help solve citizens’ problems with gathering and submitting the mandatory documents and information and, on the other hand, they also will help reduce time loss, make citizens more satisfied with how they are served and ensure a continued evolution of the ESIS.
Item VI was about first-reading amendments to the Regulation on Military Service Personnel’s Liability for Damage to the State (approved pursuant to the law No 947 dated 10 January 1995). The committee chairman said in his overview of this point that the amendments were intended to optimise the procedures for holding servicemen and conscripts called up to military training camps financially liable for damage they have caused to the State through administrative violations of the service regulations – and for the full amount of the unrecovered damage in each given case, as well.
The last agenda item was about a Bill on approving the 13-article Azerbaijani-Uzbek inter-governmental agreement of military engineering co-operation (inked in Toshkent on 21 June 2022). The main goals of the agreement are to intensify the mutually advantageous co-operation in the quoted field and to enhance the defence capabilities of both sides.
Comments and remarks were made by the deputy committee chairman Hikmat Mammadov and the MPs Bakhtiyar Sadigov, Amina Agazade, Aydin Mirzazade, Arzu Naghiyev and Elshad Mirbashiroglu. It was recommended that the draft laws reviewed at the meeting should be tabled at a plenum of the Milli Majlis.
In conclusion, the MPs talked about the latest provocation by Armenia on the state border with Azerbaijan. They condemned those who are trying to cast a shadow on the legitimate rights of our Army that had responded to that provocation adequately – and those who are attempting to abuse the treasured memories of our shahids to their political ends.
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