Ex-Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia believes that the atmosphere of injustice conditions the reason for the reluctance to serve in the Armed Forces of the Republic

ArmInfo. Sons of Armenian officials will serve in the forefront, if health allows them. The former Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia, now Minister of Emergency Situations David Tonoyan, stated this in an interview with journalists.  He expressed confidence that the authorities will do everything possible to ensure equality during the conscription and military service of representatives of all social strata of the population. According to him, this, in many respects, will be facilitated by the adoption of the law on the abolition of the postponement of compulsory military service for all healthy young people from the age of 18.

Tonoyan also assured that the elaboration of this bill began as long ago as Seyran Ohanyan was the Minister of Defense. "Seyran Ohanyan will be the happiest person, if this law is adopted," Tonoyan assured.

Answering a question about why young people try to evade military service, Tonoyan noted that, of course, there are certain problems, including the atmosphere of injustice. Nevertheless, he assured that the society trusts the army.

After the discussion in the parliament of the bill on the abolition of the deferment from compulsory military service and ardent speeches on this subject by Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan, who served in the army as the referent of the then Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, the head of the committee on national security, defense of Koryun Naapetian, who did not serve in the army at all, as well as other deputies who also did not pass obligatory military service, the spouse of ex-Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan wrote on her facebook page that is personally familiar with one of the officials zealously defending this bill and remembers how at the time of his conscript this official ran many thresholds and asked for the petition of many acquaintances to receive a postponement from the army. "And today he says with froth at the mouth about the need for compulsory military service, about justice and high matters," she wrote, never indicating a particular official or politician who did not want to go to military service.