Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 22 April 2021, a meeting of the Kengash of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan was held. The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis Tanzila Narbaeva.

A number of issues were discussed at the meeting, which was attended by members of the Senate, heads of relevant ministries and departments, as well as representatives of the media. In particular, the issue of holding the fourteenth plenary session of the Senate was considered.

By the decision of the Kengash of the Senate, the draft agenda of the fourteenth plenary session of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan additionally included some issues.

The resolution excluded 2 issues from the draft agenda of the fourteenth plenary session of the Senate.

The meeting also considered the issue of ensuring public participation in the spending of local budget funds.

It was noted that in order to expand public participation in solving urgent problems on the ground, a resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On additional measures to ensure the active participation of citizens in the budget process" of 13 April 2021 was adopted.

This resolution determines, from 1 January 2022, the phased introduction of a new procedure for financing events, formed on the basis of public opinion, in the amount of 5 percent of the approved total budget expenditures of all districts (cities).

In addition, from 1 July, the minimum amount of additional funds from the budgets of districts (cities) allocated to finance activities formed on the basis of public opinion has been increased from 10 percent to 30 percent.

In addition, starting from May 2021, 92.7 billion soums have been additionally allocated to the budgets of the selected districts (cities) at the expense of the republican budget in order to finance events formed on the basis of public opinion.

Funds allocated to finance activities formed on the basis of public opinion are accumulated in the treasury personal accounts of the “Civil Initiatives Fund” opened at the khokimiyats of districts (cities).

In order to ensure parliamentary control over the allocation of local budget funds to finance events formed on the basis of public opinion, a Resolution of the Kengash of the Senate "On ensuring public participation in the spending of local budget funds" was adopted.

The Resolution approved the Standard Regulation on the procedure for allocating funds from the budgets of districts (cities) to events formed on the basis of public opinion.

Also at the meeting, issues were considered on the approval of Manzura Alimovna Salimova as a senator working on a permanent basis in the Committee on Science, Education and Health, on the appointment of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Bakhrom Bokhodirovich Ashrafkhanov, to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Georgia at the same time, dismissal of Gayrat Ganievich Fazilov from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Japan.