YEREVAN. – President Armen Sarkissian's petition to the Constitutional Court with a request to determine the constitutionality of the Law on Military Service and the Status of a Serviceman has been registered at the Constitutional Court of Armenia. Yeva Tovmasyan, the press secretary of the Constitutional Court, informed about this.

The aforesaid petition’s compliance with the Law on the Constitutional Court shall be determined within three days, after which the preliminary consideration of this petition will continue; this envisages a 30-day period from the moment of receiving the petition, Tovmasyan also said and added that the fate of this petition shall be decided within the aforementioned period.

As reported earlier, the President had applied to the Constitutional Court with a request to decide whether the Law on Military Service and the Status of a Serviceman was in line with the Constitution of Armenia. The President stated that with this submitted petition, the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the possible measures taken could have a serious impact on the decisions made so far and the processes related to the current situation, in the context of the interpretation and application of the above-mentioned law.