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On August 9, 2017 the RA Ministry of Justice posted for public discussion on its unified website for publication of draft legal acts the draft RA Law on Military Service and Serviceman’s Status.

HCA Vanadzor presented its position on a number of regulations suggested by the draft Law.

HCA Vanadzor suggests reviewing the procedure for calculating military service terms by setting exceptions to the practices of not including within the military service terms the period of arrest or detention used as preventive measure.

Also, the Draft does not define or clarify the concept of “liable for military service” as used in its Article 17. The Organization suggested defining its content in the relevant article as well as editing Para 3 of the said Article defining the procedure for expert health examination of persons liable for military service and servicemen and providing in a separate annex the list of diseases by reaffirming its previous positions on defining the list of diseases solely by law.

The Organization also suggested specifying the cases and grounds for the RA Government to decide on exemption from service or granting deferments. Also, the procedural regulations in Article 27 on organizing military service call-up should be specified. Particularly, the Organization considered it a must that call-ups were organized by a civil service public agency not subordinate to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of Armed Forces.

On August 25, 2017 HCA Vanadzor presented its position on the draft Law to the RA Ministry of Defense.

Later, HCA Vanadzor will provide the full suggestion package.