ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GENERAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
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04.11.2009 17:40
On 25 September, 2009 the President of Armenia signed a decree on
conducting the autumn conscription for mandatory and alternative
military service and demobilization during October-December 2009. The
male citizens who are 18 before the conscription day, as well as the
citizens under 27, whose right of military deferment has expired,
will be called up to military service, Press Service of the Prosecutor
General’s Office reports.
On the criminal cases investigated by the investigators of the
Armenian Police, initiated on the cases of evasion from conscription
for mandatory and alternative military service according to the
Article 327, part 1 of the RA Criminal Code, the accused were under
persecution and detention was chosen as a pretrial measure.
The Prosecutor General instructed the prosecutors of regions and
districts to change immediately the previously chosen means of
restraint that is detention and stop the search and criminal pursuit
against those accused persons who would voluntarily come to the
police station, prosecutor’s office or military registration and
enlistment office during the conscription with an intention to do
the military service.
According to the Article 13 of the RA law "On Citizenship of RA", the
RA double citizenship means a citizenship of another state (states)
besides the RA citizenship.
In the Republic of Armenia a citizen with double citizenship is
considered only an RA citizen. This norm is related also to the
citizens, who after January 1, 1995 without forfeiting the RA
citizenship according to the prescribed order, became a citizen or
got citizenship of another state, as well as to those who unilaterally
abandoned Armenian citizenship.
An RA citizen with double citizenship has all rights and carries all
responsibilities and obligations prescribed to the citizens of the RA.
The Prosecutor General’s Office calls on all conscripts under search
to get use of the given opportunity, to do their constitutional duty
for motherland, to give up the status of an accused under search,
to be proudly called a free citizen and soldier of our motherland.
We also appeal to the parents of conscripts with a call to support
their sons in foreign lands, to support them to give up the humiliating
status of an accused person, to contribute to their further healthy
physical and psychological upbringing for their sons to have a chance
to come back and live on their homeland after doing military service.
The persecution will not be implemented to those citizens who will
show an intention to leave for alternative service places in order
to do their duties for the homeland under the order prescribed by
the RA law "On Alternative Service".
The RA law "On citizens who did not do the mandatory military service
with the violation of the prescribed order" also stipulates an order
of termination of search and persecution of accused. The action
sphere of the law involves the time period from autumn conscription
of 1992 till May 1, 2009 and is spread over all those citizens who
violated the RA law "On compulsory military service" and were not
called up to military service (evaded the military service) and who
are 27 (to officers transferred to the reserve are 35) or under 27
(35) got a deferment or release of military service according to the
order prescribed by the RA law "On compulsory military service". The
mentioned persons, after paying the sum of money stipulated by the
law, will get a decision of the persecution implementing agency the
on the cease of the persecution within one month, also get a military
card and registration in the reserve of the military forces.