On the October 1-3, 2009th Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus Petr P. Miklashevich participated in the XIVth International Conference on: «Internationan Experience of Interaction of Constitutional Courts with Parliaments in Guaranteeing the Supremacy of the Constitution» Yerevan (Armenia).

The Conference was attended by chief judges and judges of the constitutional courts and representatives of the parliaments from Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, etc.

The items on interaction of constitutional review bodies with national parliaments were discussed. The forum participants underlined repeatedly that one of the important factors for ensuring the stability in the state and society is the effective interaction of the branches of government.

At the plenary meeting the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus Petr P. Miklashevich made a presentation on the most important function of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus – that consists in the constitutional supremacy ensuring. He informed the participants about the stages of formation and development of constitutional justice in our country, problems and prospects of constitutional justice in the exercise of obligatory preliminary constitutional control of laws, more efficient protection of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens according to the new powers. At the present time the constitutionalism in Belarus develops in a stable society, a close and constructive cooperation of the authorities on the basis of its Constitutional balance of powers.

Petr P. Miklashevich noted that the legal positions of the decisions adopted in the exercise of obligatory preliminary control of constitutionality of laws are the result of revealing the constitutional and legal meaning of the law rules that may be used to prevent the subsequent law enforcement conflicts, to ensure uniform enforcement, to eliminate gaps in legal regulation. Thus the main criterion to be satisfied by examined laws is the constitutionality thereof.

A number of working meeting of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus with the chief judges of Constitutional Courts of Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and with the General Secretary of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe took place. At the meetings were discussed prospects of the bilateral and multilateral cooperation, were underlined the commonality of problems when improving the system of constitutional justice and the importance of mutual communication on vital issues of the constitutional courts functioning.