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Pro-government MP proposes to raise the maximum age of conscription
Armenian MP from the ruling Civil Contract party Hayk Sargsyan unveiled at a press conference today a set of amendments to the Law On Military Service and the Status of a Serviceman, which call for increasing the maximum age for military service from the current 27 years to 37 years.
12.05.2025, 16:32
Society
Armenian National Assembly approves draft law allowing women to volunteer for military service
The Armenian parliament has approved today a draft law in the second and final reading that allows women to volunteer for military service.
26.06.2023, 18:44
Society
Armenian government approves new program of transition from conscription to contract military service
Фrmenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan unveiled today a new military program titled "Defender of the Fatherland" at a meeting of the government.
27.10.2022, 11:48
Society
Armenian minister proposes raising conscription age for students granted deferment
Armenian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Vahram Dumanyan presented today to lawmakers draft amendments to the law On Military Service, which call for raising the conscription age from the current 27 to 28 years for those students who were granted deferment from the mandatory military service in order to continue their studies.
14.09.2022, 13:06
Society
Armenian defense ministry proposes cutting mandatory military service term in return for hefty payment
A draft law designed by Armenia’s Defense Ministry and put up for public discussions on e-draft portal, calls for a new system of contract military service, as well as for cutting the mandatory military service term for private conscripts on condition of paying a hefty amount to the government.
24.08.2022, 16:13
Society
Armenian parliament exempts brothers and sons of soldiers killed in action from compulsory military service
By a vote of 68 Armenia’s National Assembly has approved today in the second and final reading a bill that exempts the brothers and sons of Armenian soldiers killed in action from 24-month long compulsory military service.
12.04.2022, 18:22
Politics
Minister: no shifting to contractual military service in Nagorno-Karabakh
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) State Minister Artak Beglaryan denied today rumors claiming that Artsakh Defense Army was shifting to contractual military service.
18.01.2022, 14:08
Society
Armenia may cut period of mandatory military service
The Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan said in an interview with Radio Azatutyun that the mandatory military service period may be cut by 20% from the current 24 months.
30.08.2021, 13:00
Society
Armenian parliament raises age threshold for contract military personnel
By a vote of 103 and 2 abstentions, the parliament of Armenia has passed today in the second and final reading a set of amendments to the law on military service, which raise the age threshold for contract military personnel.
19.04.2021, 11:07
Society
Armenia plans to raise age threshold for contract servicemen
The Armenian parliament has approved today in the first reading a set of changes to the law on military service and the status of servicemen.
25.03.2021, 12:47
Society
Parliament extends law that allowed 9,800 citizens to avoid criminal prosecution for dodging compulsory military service
Some 9,800 citizens of Armenia over the age of 27 have avoided criminal prosecution since 2003 due to a law that allows male citizens who have dodged compulsory military service for years to buy amnesty.
25.02.2019, 19:22
Politics
Sharmazanov thinks that sons of Armenian tycoons and officials no longer will dodge military service
Eduard Sharmazanov, vice-speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, said that the authorities are wiling to implement substantial reforms to force sons of officials and tycoons serve in army.
14.11.2017, 12:53
Politics
Defense Ministry to pass separate decision on military service of Syrian Armenian males
The Armenian Defense Ministry will take a separate decision concerning the military service of Syrian Armenian males, who were granted Armenian citizenship, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a press secretary for the defense ministry, told a news conference today.
15.10.2012, 19:25
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On Friday, a meeting took place in Istanbul between the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Pashinyan and Erdogan discussed the normalization of Armenia's relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan
