At a plenary session, the Lithuanian Seimas approved the conscription of young men for nine-month fixed-term army service immediately after graduation from secondary school, the TASS news agency reported.
At the parliamentary session, 85 deputies voted in favour of the new order, 14 abstained and three were against it. According to Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrid Šimonīte, the main thing in the approved document is that the draft law lays down a principle that will apply to everyone.
According to the new procedure, at the age of 17, future conscripts must contact recruitment centres, leave their contact and profile data, and undergo a health check. Once they reach the age of 18 (the age of completion of schooling in Latvia), they can be drafted into the army.
Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas specified that the innovations do not mean that Lithuania is moving to universal conscription.
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