Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on conscription of the country`s citizens into active military service and on the transfer of servicemen from active military service to reserve units on January 1-30, 2011.
The decree is applied to all citizens of the country born in 1993 who are 18 years of age on the day of conscription, as well as those born in 1976-1992 and are under the age of 35, and those who have no right of deferral of service in the armed forces and other military services of the country.
Under the presidential decree, soldiers, seamen and sergeants who served their term envisaged by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic "On military service" are to be discharged.{nl}