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is used to manipulate people's religious consciousness and thinking. Modern political scientists 
recognize religious fanaticism as one of the most serious threats to the development of 
international relations. For this reason, ensuring an interreligious tolerant environment in the 
world and in our country is considered as the main way to free society members from all 
directions of fanaticism. 
The seriousness of the matter is that it cannot be denied that there are financial forces interested 
in the existence, growth and spread of religious fanaticism in certain regions. According to 
Doctor of Philosophy U. Kushayev, "In the current situation, where the priority ideas of the 
teachings of world religions, which have the potential of good thoughts and actions in 
international and interstate relations, are being drawn into the framework of various political and 
geopolitical "games", tolerance is the main strategy of international, social and interpersonal 
relations and became the most important requirements of our time as an important component of 
tactics".[18] 
The geographical location of Uzbekistan and its desire to take a strong position in the world 
community do not correspond to the interests of some political forces. In such a situation, it is 
natural that there will be various geopolitical influences outside our country in order to 
undermine internal stability. Therefore, in order to ensure a stable environment in the country's 
domestic and foreign policy, among many tasks, there is also the task of creating an integrated 
system based on the principles of religious tolerance. In this regard, first of all, it is necessary to 
develop tolerant relations established by the legislation. Issues of religious tolerance are reflected 
in the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious 
Organizations". According to Article 5 of the Law, "The main priorities of ensuring freedom of 
conscience are as follows: 
1.
to create equal conditions for citizens to exercise their rights to freedom of conscience, 
regardless of their attitude to religion, without allowing forced indoctrination of religious 
views; 
2.
strengthening peace and harmony between confessions, ensuring religious tolerance in 
society; 
3.
preserving the construction of a secular state while ensuring freedom of conscience; 
4.
ensuring compliance of citizens and religious organizations with the legislation on freedom 
of conscience and religious organizations; 
5.
religious ideas that threaten public order, health and morals, rights and freedoms of citizens 
of the Republic of Uzbekistan and 
6.
One of the main results is to fight against the indoctrination and dissemination of the views 
that we mentioned above.[19] 
The previous Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations" implemented in 
Uzbekistan to ensure religious tolerance. Not only experts in the field and the general public in 
the country, but also the international community gave a good assessment of the fact that this 
Law, adopted in the new version, was prepared on the basis of international democratic 
standards. 
According to the conclusion of the Venice Commission of the OSCE Office for Democratic 
Institutions and Human Rights dated October 12, 2020, reforms aimed at ensuring religious 
tolerance in our country show that they are in the right direction. In the fifth section of the 
Strategy of Actions adopted on the five priority directions of the development of the Republic of 
Uzbekistan in 2017-2021, the priority directions in the field of ensuring security, interethnic 
harmony and religious tolerance were indicated. In this direction, ensuring religious tolerance 
was defined as one of the important priority tasks. As its logical continuation, on January 28, 
2022, Decree No. PF-60 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the Development 

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