Obligatory Army Service Comes Back To Kuwait

27 April 2017 Kuwait

Kuwait officially announced it will re-instate the mandatory military service law under the ‘National Service’ tag that was signed by HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al- Jaber Al-Sabah on May 4, 2015.

The daily quoting the Chief of the National Service Authority Major-General Ibrahim Salem Al-Omairi said Kuwait will start receiving about 13,217 would-be conscripts who are expected to turn 18, on May 10, 2017 for a mandatory military service for 12 months divided in two phases four months for training and eight months for military service.

Speaking at a press Tuesday, Al- Omairi said those who will be called for the mandatory military service are men born after May 10, 1999. He added, registration can begin as of next May 10. “After 20 years, the mandatory military service was halted to restart operating under a new law,” the chief of the National Service Authority said. He added the period during which the service was stopped, the concerned Kuwaiti officials were studying a new and advanced law capable of keeping abreast with the internal and foreign changes.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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