Announcement made by the General Prosecutor’s Office

On 8 October, 2011 the President of the RA signed a Decree on conducting the autumn conscription for mandatory and alternative military service and demobilization during October-December 2011. The RA male citizens who are 18 before the conscription day will be called up to military service, also the RA citizens under 27, whose right of military deferment has expired.

On the criminal cases investigated by the investigators of the RA 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 immediately change the previously chosen means of restraint that is detention and stop the search and criminal pursuit against those accused  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, 2011and 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.

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