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Amendments to Law on Military Service unacceptable -MP

ARMINFO
Armenia – Aug 25 2022
Alina Hovhannisyan

ArmInfo.The government-proposed bill allowing early demobilization provided  servicemen pay AMD 24mln (about $50,000) to the state budget is  unacceptable, the opposition MP Tigran Abrahamyan wrote on his  Facebook page. 

It will only confound social injustice and deepen the social crisis. 

As regards the authorities' claims that the initiative will allow  contract servicemen to receive higher salaries, Mr Abrahamyan said: 

"That is, they are convincing us that the state has no money for  contract servicemen. Our servicemen's social conditions must meet  higher-than-average standards as these people are safeguarding our  security.  However, they are not feeling support on the government's  part. Rather they are facing constant threats because of the  authorities' policy," he wrote. 

Armenia's government has posted amendments to the Law on Military  Service. According to one of the amendments, after a  four-and-a-half-month training course, a serviceman can be exempted  from further military service after paying AMD 24mln to Armenia's  state budget, which, according to the bill, will allow one contract  serviceman to receive AMD 400,000 (about $1,000) for five years  running.   

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