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5th International Conference of Chief Justices of the WorldAddress byHon’ble Mr Justice Bahman GaribovJudge, Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan[English translation of the speech delivered in Russian]EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW And DECISIONS of the CONSTITUTIONAL COURTThe modern world is experiencing a cardinal transformation. Globalization has becomemore confident and a kernel of developments in the twenty-first century.On the basis of a principle of sovereignty of the state, it was considered till recently thatall spheres of the states mutual relations with people are basically an internal question,adjustable at the national level. Today, in the modern world, the state sovereignty isalready not considered absolute. It is limited as from the outside by virtue of actualinterdependence of the countries and people that finds legal expression in submission ofthe states to international law and occurrence of the international organizations with superiorpowers, and from within the sovereignty of the state even in its own territory is limited byinalienable laws and personal freedoms, protecting which is the responsibility of the state.Hon’ble Mr Justice Bahman Garibov,Judge, Constitutional Court ofAzerbaijan addressing the ConferenceActually there is an interrelation between democracy and a lawful state. Democracy is indissolubly connected with a lawfulstate which usually associates with an imperative of respect of the rights both within the state under national law and outsidein the international community, of international law.It is necessary to note that the role of international law increases more and more as it is expressed, first, to detaileddevelopment and a concrete definition of the international principles and the norms adjusting fundamental laws and freedomof the person which should be observed by the states, secondly, in creation of the international bodies under the control ofthe states undertaken as obligation by them.The role of judicial authority in implementation of norms and principles of international law cannot be underestimated.Courts of highest authorities apply norms of international law in particular positions of contracts and customs, at regulationof the internal law and order. The judiciary practice to render positive influence on performance of obligations fixed by theinternational contracts. Application of the conventional principles and norms international the right in the Azerbaijan Republic,in particular in practice of the constitutional justice, gets intensive character.We now have an active process of coordination of positions of interstate norms with requirements of corresponding normsof international law. This process is promoted by the maintenance of the Constitution, especially its parts of second clause12 according to which the general is carried out in the legal system recognized by Azerbaijan for herself as obligatory is theinternational-rules of law.Rapproachement or its maintenance is marked not by curbing the rights and freedom ofsome person, as realizations of the recognized and guaranteed rights and freedom of theperson and citizen according to the conventional principles and norms of internationallaw and according to the Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic.Hon’ble Mr Justice Bahman Garibov,Judge, Constitutional Court of Azerbaijanbeing greeted at the ConferenceAccording to clause 151 of the Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic, an occurrenceof contradictions between the normative legal certificates entering into system of thelegislation of the Azerbaijan Republic (excepting the Constitution of the Azerbaijan Republicand the certificates accepted by a referendum) and by interstate contracts where aparticipant is the Azerbaijan Republic, are applied international law. Thus other norm of--72--