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04YEREVAN2804
2004-12-29 13:24:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:  

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY

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291324Z Dec 04
UNCLAS YEREVAN 002804 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PGOV AM
SUBJECT: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY
SERVICE LAW

REF: YEREVAN 2545

UNCLAS YEREVAN 002804

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR EUR/CACEN, DRL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PGOV AM
SUBJECT: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY
SERVICE LAW

REF: YEREVAN 2545


1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.


2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian signed legislation
December 28 that establishes a system of alternatives
to military service in Armenia. The National Assembly
began work on this legislation at the end of 2003 at
the urging of the Council of Europe and passed it in
its final form November 23 of this year (reftel). The
Ministry of Justice can now adjudicate the roughly 20
applications received from Fall 2004 draftees. The
ministry expects to complete the adjudication process
in early February, before spring military training
begins. Under the law, draftees can apply for civil
service such as work in a hospital or alternative
military service, which excludes handling weapons.
Applicants must show that they are members of an
established pacifist group in order to qualify for one
of the alternatives to military service.
RICHTER