Damascus-Sana
Brigadier General Ahmed Suleiman, Director General of the General Administration of the Ministry of Defense confirmed that Legislative Decree No. (31) for the year 2020 issued by President Bashar al-Assad and the judge to amend some articles of Legislative Decree No. (30) date 3-5-2007 and its amendments, which include the law on military service, encourage and provide facilities for youth Syrians who want to return to their homeland after the terrorist war imposed on Syria forced them to emigrate and work with their families in other countries.
In an interview with Al-Suriya TV, Brigadier General Suleiman pointed out that there is no internal allowance, and the Ministry of Defense and the General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces stresses that compulsory service, as stipulated in the constitution, is a sacred duty, indicating that this decree states that only the person assigned to the compulsory service who has decided to place him is entitled to fixed service. A person with a certain degree of disability approved by the Medical Council has paid a cash allowance of three thousand US dollars or its equivalent in Syrian pounds, and this matter is optional and not mandatory.
Brigadier General Suleiman clarified that the amendments related to the cash allowance, as the amount was reduced from 8 thousand US dollars to 7 thousand dollars or its equivalent in Syrian pounds for those who had four years of permanent and continuous residence outside Syria before or after entering the age of assignment.
Brigadier General Suleiman indicated that according to the new decree, there are segments for those who wish to pay the allowance who are outside the country, after it was one bracket, and the longer this period, the amount decreases and a slice of $ 6500 or its equivalent in Syrian pounds was added to the taxpayer who was born outside the country and resided in an Arab or foreign country He completed ten years before entering the age of commission, and there was an amendment regarding reserve service for those outside the country.
Brigadier General Suleiman pointed out that Article (26) used to provide for health exemption from reserve service and the new addition in the decree also included exemption from reserve service for a resident outside the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic for a permanent residence for a period of not less than one year after paying a cash allowance of $ 5,000.
Brigadier General Suleiman indicated that the Syrians in Europe can pay the value of the monetary exchange in euros or dollars.
Regarding delegates abroad for the benefit of a public agency, Brigadier General Suleiman explained that Article (13), Paragraph (a) of the third clause stipulated that they do not benefit from the provisions of the decree and the exception, and the only one who benefits is the delegate who has obtained a postgraduate degree for which he was delegated and which is not less than Master's degree and that he resided in the country of delegation for the period specified in the laws and regulations in force for dispatch, which means that if we send one of our sons and change the specialization that was sent to study, he does not benefit from the provisions of the decree.
For his part, Colonel Ali Bilal from the General Directorate of Recruitment explained that Decree (31) included amendments in terms of value and duration of residency, as the slides increased to become six segments of a cash allowance according to the period of time, and the greater the period, the lower the value of the allowance that starts from 7 thousand dollars for those with four years of residency Outside the country before or after the age of assignment, $ 8,000 for those with a 3-year residency outside the country, $ 9,000 for those with two-year residency, and $ 10,000 for those with one year of residency outside Syria.
Colonel Bilal indicated that the decree gave the taxpayer residing outside the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic to discontinue from the country of residence for a period not exceeding 90 days in one calendar year and gave him the right to exist within Syria for an additional 60 days exceeding the previous 90 days in exchange for payment of two hundred US dollars, indicating that This period is not counted from the period required to pay the cash allowance.
Regarding civilian pilots, Colonel Bilal indicated that the decree included new segments, as the deferred pilot in Article (10) paid 800,000 Syrian pounds as a cash allowance, and Decree No. (31) added that the pilot working for the Syrian Airlines Corporation, who was postponed in Article (10) for a period Five consecutive years, or who has completed five years of actual service with the corporation and continued to practice the profession, he paid a cash allowance of $ 10,000 or its equivalent in Syrian pounds, and the decree also included civilian pilots working outside the Syrian Airlines Corporation, where they pay an allowance of $ 15,000.
Colonel Bilal stated that with regard to Article (95) and Article (114) of the decree, their fines were imposed by the recruitment division directly, and some articles in which every defaulter was punished by referring him to the judiciary to collect the fine, and Article 114 pertaining to keeping a book Knowledge has increased the value of the fine and a penalty was added to it, whereby a cash amount of twenty thousand Syrian Pounds shall be imposed on whoever loses the military service book and a monetary amount of ten thousand Syrian Pounds who causes the destruction of the military service notebook, while he shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to two years and a fine of one hundred thousand Syrian Pounds. With the intention of totally or partially destroying his or her military service notebook, and an administrative fine of twenty thousand Syrian pounds, the value of the new notebook is imposed directly by the Recruitment Division.
Colonel Bilal emphasized that it is not possible to equalize the person who performed the compulsory service and the one who paid the allowance, and the one who paid the allowance cannot be given equal privileges to the one who performed the compulsory service. Whoever pays the cash allowance is forbidden from subscribing or allocating housing with any of the public authorities and he cannot obtain loans from public banks. For a period of five years starting from the date of payment of the allowance. As for those who performed compulsory service, they have preferences in the contests and tests announced by the public authorities in accordance with the principles issued by a decision of the Council of Ministers.
