Armenia mulls bringing draft age from 18 to 19 May 11, 2011 - 12:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 11, the Armenian National Assembly discussed a bill on making amendments to the RA Law on Military Service. Presenting the bill in the parliament, Armenian Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said adoption of the bill is important, since as a result of the transfer to a 12-year system of secondary education, around 6,000 young people will graduate from schools after reaching the draft age, which is currently 18. Tovmasyan noted that the bill envisages increasing the military age and drafting young people to the army from 19. According to him, the bill will clarify the situation for 6,000 Armenian citizens, who will be drafted to the army only after graduation from school. Tovmasyan said that the bill was discussed with the Armenian Ministers of Defense and Education and Science. Besides, the bill was positively estimated by the RA NA Committee on Defense, Security and Internal Affairs. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |