LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of January 9, 2018 No. ZRU-458

About the defense doctrine of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Accepted by Legislative house on December 18, 2017

Approved by the Senate on December 20, 2017

Article 1. Approve the Defense doctrine of the Republic of Uzbekistan it (is applied).

Article 2. Declare invalid the Resolution of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan of August 30, 1995 No. 105-I "About the Military doctrine of the Republic of Uzbekistan" (Sheets of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 9, the Art. 180).

Article 3. To the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

bring decisions of the government into accord with this Law;

provide review and cancellation by state bodies of their regulatory legal acts contradicting this Law;

provide execution, bringing to contractors and explanation among the population of essence and value of this Law.

Article 4. This Law becomes effective from the date of its official publication.

Approved by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of January 9, 2018 No. ZRU-458

Defense doctrine of the Republic of Uzbekistan

I. General provisions

1. The defense doctrine of the Republic of Uzbekistan (further - Doktrina) determines the principles and approaches to ensuring national security of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the military sphere.

2. The Republic of Uzbekistan confirms defensive nature of the Doctrine. She does not consider the opponent any of the states and builds the relations with all countries on the basis of priority of national interests of the country and taking into account the conventional principles and rules of international law, mutual advantage, equality and non-interference to internal affairs of other states, settlement of all matters of argument by peaceful means and in the way of negotiations, recognitions of inviolability and invariance of the developed interstate borders.

3. Doctrine:

is based on the Constitution, the Concept of homeland security and other legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, relies on the principles and rules of international law, Articles of organization of the United Nations, and also international treaties which participant is the Republic of Uzbekistan;

proceeds from national interests of the country, military-political situation in the world and the region, extent of threats of homeland security in the military sphere, nature of the modern military conflicts;

considers basic provisions of the Concept of foreign policy activities and other planning documents of defense of the country;

opens the directions and methods of the organization of activities of the state, society and citizens on prevention of the military conflicts, protection of the vital national interests;

determines on perspective priorities of policy of the state in the field of defense, the basic principles and the directions of preparation, construction and use of Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan (further - Armed Forces).

4. The realization of the Doctrine is enabled within single state policy on ensuring national security of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

5. In this Doctrine the following basic concepts are applied:

the special period - the period from the moment of decision making about mobilization (introduction of warlike situation), including the entire period of conducting military operations;

military organization of the state - set of bodies of the public and military administration, the Armed Forces, other bodies, organizations and special forming created on wartime and also defense industry complex which joint activities are directed to the solution of tasks on ensuring military safety;

defense of the country - system of measures of political, economic, military, social and legal, information, organizational and other nature for ensuring protection of sovereignty, territorial integrity of the Republic of Uzbekistan, peaceful life and safety of its population;

threats of homeland security in the military sphere - the factors which are characterized by real possibility of use of military force against the Republic of Uzbekistan;

illegal armed groups - the armed associations, groups, groups created contrary to the national and international legal system, pursuing terrorist, extremist, criminal or other purposes;

the threatened period - period of time of different duration which, as a rule, precedes the beginning of the military conflict and is characterized by extreme aggravation of military-political situation;

emergency situation - the situation in certain territory which developed as a result of accident, catastrophic crash, natural hazard, natural or other disaster which can entail or entailed the human victims, damnification to human health or the environment, considerable material losses and violation of conditions of life activity of people;

armed conflict - armed conflict (the share, incident) of limited scale between the states (the international armed conflict) or the resisting parties within the territory of one state (internal armed conflict) for the purpose of permission of economic, political, national, ethnic, religious and other contradictions in case of which state of war does not appear;

the military conflict - form of permission of interstate or interstate contradictions using the military force which covers all types of the armed antagonism, including wars and armed conflicts;

military aggression - use of military force against sovereignty, territorial integrity and the state independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

military safety - condition of security of national interests from safety hazards of the state in the military sphere.

II. Military-political aspects of the doctrine

1. Features of military-political situation

6. In the conditions of the continuing globalization and transformation of all system of the international relations the military-political situation in the world is characterized by expansion of range of challenges and threats of the international and regional security - strengthening of geopolitical opposition, dominance of power approach to the conflict resolution and crisis situations, reduction of the threshold of use of force, including weapons of mass destruction, militarization, activation of the international terrorism and extremism, increase of antagonism in information and cyberspace.

Even more often the conventional principles and rules of international law are exposed to free interpretation and the selective application.

The alarming tendencies specified in paragraphs one and the second this Item, on a global scale conduct to aggravation existing and to emergence of the new centers of intensity. As a result the provision in the world more and more becomes complicated, acquires the hardly predicted nature.

In turn the situation in Central Asia is negatively influenced by the remaining challenges and threats of terrorism, extremism, drug traffic and cross-border crime. The special safety hazard for the region is posed in itself by activities of illegal armed groups in Afghanistan.

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