Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today signed an order on conscription of Azerbaijani citizens into the active military service and the transfer of the servicemen from active military service to reserve units on July 1-30, 2016.

Under the order, the citizens of Azerbaijan Republic born in 1998 who are 18 years of age on the day of conscription, as well as those born in 1981-1997 and are under the age of 35 and citizens of Azerbaijan Republic who have no rights of deferral of services in the Republic’s armed forces and other military formations are to be conscripted into active military service on July 1-30, 2016.

The soldiers, seamen and sergeants who served a term of service envisaged by the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic "On military service" are to be discharged on July 1-30, 2016.