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The Lithuanian government has decided to reintroduce military conscription this year, after which the Ministry of National Defence compiled a list of almost 37,000 eligible young men who might be drafted for the military service this year. This has sparked much controversy and a heated debate in the...

Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas announced that 1,561 volunteers have signed up for service in the Lithuanian army by Monday morning, 25 May, and that the health commission examined the 500 of them.

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Athletes, artists and scientists who popularize Lithuania and were included in conscription lists may be exempted from military service, under a decree issued by the defence minister.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence has published on its website the official list of this year's draftees, which is available at sauktiniai.kam.lt.

More than half of respondents in Lithuania support the reintroduction of the conscription system, with the majority willing to send their children and grandchildren to mandatory military service, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI.

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Lists of conscripts have been complied at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence on Monday.

Volunteers have already filled almost a third of conscription places as Lithuania plans to issue lists of conscripts next week, the country's Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday.

Nine people representing seven Lithuanian organisations will observe on 11 May how military draft lists are compiled.

Four in five conscripts to be recruited this year will serve in the Land Forces of the Lithuanian Army, the army said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Friday that over the last two weeks a total of 206 citizens had volunteered to sign up for a 9-month military service, including 9 women.

Lithuania's Armed Forces cannot do without conscripts, they are needed all the time, not for five years only, says opposition leader Andrius Kubilius.

The decision of the Lithuanian Seimas to re-introduce conscription was welcome. It was a crucial step not only because of the growing geopolitical threat but more importantly because it builds a healthy, solid and Western society and a state that has confidence in itself.

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The Seimas of Lithuania has started deliberating upon amendments to the Law on Military Conscription and the Law on National Defence System Organisation and Military Service.

More than 100 volunteers registered for initial mandatory military service over the first ten days, Lithuania's Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said at the parliament on Tuesday in his presentation of the guarantees and privileges for conscripts.

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