Tashkent hosted roundtable on consolidating public cooperation between non-state non-profit organizations and state structures, new mechanisms of financing the activity of non-state non-profit organizations, reported Jahon.
The National association of non-state non-profit organizations of Uzbekistan is reported to have organized the seminar. The staff members of Parliamentary commission on administering means of public fund to support non-state non-profit organizations and other institutions of civil society at the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, ministries of labor and social protection of population, finance and justice, State tax committee, municipality of the city of Tashkent, and public organizations took part at the event.
Those who spoke at the seminar have said that Uzbekistan pays a particular attention to further liberalizing society, raising the status of public and non-state organizations along gradual reforms now underway vis-à-vis transition from a strong state to a strong democratic society.
The Law “On guarantees of activity of non-state non-profit organizations” of January 3, 2007 serves as a legal basis for developing non-state non-profit organizations and other institutions of civil society. Non-state non-profit organizations play an important role in raising public activeness of citizens, broadly attracting them to addressing urgent issues of state and public construction, strengthening democratic values in people”s minds.