RA President signs draft amendments to the Law "On Individuals who  have not completed compulsory military service"

ArmInfo.. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signed a draft adopted earlier by the country's parliament on  amendments to the law "On individuals who did not  undergo compulsory military service in the prescribed manner." This  was reported by the press service of the RA President.

To recall, on March 6 the RA National Assembly in the second and  final reading amended the current law. As one of the authors of the  presented document, Secretary of the Bright Armenia Party faction  Gevorg Gorgisyan noted the bill proposes to extend the term of the  law, according to which persons who turned 27 years old before the  end of 2017 were given the opportunity to pay money and return to  Armenia without fear of criminal prosecution. Now it is proposed to  provide such an opportunity to those persons who turned 27 years old  before the end of 2018. Thus, as the main speaker pointed out the new  law will boost a new wave of repatriation and offer the solution of  the country's demographic problems. According to him, as of the  beginning of the current year, there are about 10,900 draft evaders  "on the run", and the document presented is intended to solve this  problem.