Slovenia/Yugoslavia: Information (in Slovenia from independence in 1991 and in Yugoslavia from January 1994), on whether a person who was born in the Slovene Republic of the former Yugoslavia before 1980, and who was repeatedly determined to be unfit for military service in the Yugoslav armed forces in the late 1980s, would have been compelled to perform compulsory military service, and (in Slovenia since 1991), the legal penalties and the penalties actually meted out for failure to respond to call-up notices to perform military service, and for desertion from military service, and on the problems or disadvantages encountered by people who failed to respond to call-up notices to perform military service or deserted from military service
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 25 April 1997 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | ZZZ26495.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Slovenia/Yugoslavia: Information (in Slovenia from independence in 1991 and in Yugoslavia from January 1994), on whether a person who was born in the Slovene Republic of the former Yugoslavia before 1980, and who was repeatedly determined to be unfit for military service in the Yugoslav armed forces in the late 1980s, would have been compelled to perform compulsory military service, and (in Slovenia since 1991), the legal penalties and the penalties actually meted out for failure to respond to call-up notices to perform military service, and for desertion from military service, and on the problems or disadvantages encountered by people who failed to respond to call-up notices to perform military service or deserted from military service, 25 April 1997, ZZZ26495.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab4430.html [accessed 21 October 2022] |
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For information on whether people considered unfit for military service in the former Yugoslavia are required to perform military service in Slovenia, please consult section four of the 7 April 1996 Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia attachment. For information on the penalties for avoidance of military service, please consult section five of the 7 April 1997 and the 9 April 1997 Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia attachments. For a copy of the questions posed to the Embassy, please consult the DIRB attachment. For further information on Slovenian military service, please consult Responses to Information Requests SLO17587.E of 3 June 1994 and SLO16768.E of 15 March 1994.
Additional information on the above-mentioned topics could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Attachments
Documentation, Information and Research Branch (DIRB), Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa. 2 April 1997. Letter sent to the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Ottawa.
Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Ottawa. 9 April 1997. Letter sent to the DIRB.
_____. 7 April 1997. Letter sent to the DIRB.
Additional Sources Consulted
DIRB databases.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact other oral sources.
