On May 16, within the framework of the VIII St. Petersburg Legal Forum, the regular session of the member-courts of the “Conference of the Constitutional Control Organs of the Countries of New Democracy” was held at the “Pompeii” Hall at the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which was attended by the delegations of the Constitutional Courts of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The agenda of the working session included the coordination of the further activities of the Conference, cooperation with other international institutions, as well as the issues related to the participation in the “Congress of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice,” which will be convened in Algeria in 2020.
During the session, the new official logo of the Organization was adopted: Themis holding the Constitution, with the background of the sun surrounded by the rays of wheat. The participants of the meeting adopted a decision to convene the next session of the Conference within the framework of the International Conference which will be held in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan in August 2018. It should be noted that since September 2017, the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan has assumed the chairmanship at the “Conference of the Constitutional Control Organs of the Countries of New Democracy.”