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Switzerland: is compulsory military service near to an end?

Berne, Switzerland - Government would be thinking to encourage the professionalization of the armed forces but many opponents exist

Swiss Government would be seriously thinking to an opportunity for cancel the compulsory military service. Such decision, however, is being considered in all its relevance, when taking into account that the defence of the nation (a neutral State with a small population and completely surrounded by other states) has always been considered as an inevitable principle of Swiss people and consolidated in...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 101346
Rome, Italy, 08/05/2004 15:09
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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