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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of October 27, 1991 No. 573-XII

About independence and bases of state system of Turkmenistan

(as amended of the Constitutional Law of Turkmenistan of 09.10.2017)

The Supreme Council of Turkmenistan, realizing the will of the people expressed to them during the referendum on October 26, 1991, the Declaration on the state sovereignty of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, DECIDES:

1. Proclaim in borders of the territory of the Turkmen SSR the independent democratic state - Turkmenistan.

Independence of Turkmenistan is declared for the sake of the prime targets - findings by the Turkmen people of authentic national statehood, providing to each person, irrespective of distinctions in national, racial, social origin and religion, the rights and freedoms provided by the Constitution of Turkmenistan, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other rules of international law, creations of humane democratic society in which the law has command.

2. Form of government of Turkmenistan - the republic in which the carrier of the government are the people. The people perform the power directly through popular vote (referendum) and through system of representative bodies.

3. In all territory of Turkmenistan rule of the Constitution and the laws of Turkmenistan is established.

Until settlement of the interstate relations and completion of legislative reform in the legal relationship which are not regulated by the Constitution and the laws of Turkmenistan the Constitution and the laws of the USSR keep action.

4. The territory of Turkmenistan in the developed borders is inviolable and indivisible.

5. The government in Turkmenistan is performed by the principle of its separation on legislative, executive and judicial.

6. The Supreme Council of Turkmenistan according to the Constitution of Turkmenistan performs legislature.

7. Management official of Turkmenistan is the President of Turkmenistan - the head of state. The president of Turkmenistan heads the executive authority.

8. Courts of Turkmenistan are independent and submit only to the law.

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