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Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan was reorganized by Decree № 706 of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated December 14, 2015 and government agencies of [[State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan|State Security Service]] and the Foreign Intelligence Service were established on the base of this ministry.
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In accordance with President Ilham Aliyev`s Decrees dated Dec.14, 2015 Madat Guliyev was appointed the chief of the State Security Service and Orkhan Aslanov the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
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The '''Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security''' ('''MNS''', [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]]: Milli Təhlukəsizlik Nazirliyi) was an [[intelligence agency]] within the [[cabinet of Azerbaijan]]. The MNS was a central executive authority that carried out the competencies designated to it by the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the field of obtaining and analyzing information about foreign affairs, [[corporation]]s, individuals. The MNS also carried out intelligence, [[Counterintelligence|counter-intelligence]], protection of state secrets, revealing, preventing, precluding and detection of crimes. On 14 December 2015, President [[Ilham Aliyev]] signed a decree dissolving the ministry and creating a National Security Service with domestic duties and a foreign intelligence service.


==History==
Ministry of National Security of [[Azerbaijan]] was established on the material-technical and personnel basis of the Soviet [[KGB|Committee of State Security]] (KGB) on November 1, 1991. Within a short period of time, representatives of other nationalities had left the Ministry and Azerbaijan, the process of staffing Ministry only by the national specialists had begun. Not only the name and the personnel of the security body had changed, but primary change the Ministry faced was its mission and duties.<ref>[http://www.mns.gov.az/historymns_en.html The history of the security bodies of Azerbaijan]</ref>


== Organization ==
== Refernces ==
* http://az.president.az/articles/17159
{{refimprove section|date=January 2013}}
* http://az.president.az/articles/17160
The Ministry was guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the decrees of President, the decisions and decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers, the international treaties of which Azerbaijan was a part, its statute, and other normative-legal acts of the MNS.


The MNS headquarters were in the following cities:
*[[Baku]]
*[[Ganja, Azerbaijan|Ganja]]
*[[Nakhchivan (city)|Nakhchivan]]


== External links ==
==Current MNS cases==
* http://en.apa.az/azerbaijan-politics/domestic-news/state-security-foreign-intelligence-services-created-in-azerbaijan.html
* In 2008, the MNS arrested a dozen of [[Al-Qaeda]] members who were involved in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque.<ref>[http://www.today.az/news/society/53421.html “Forest brothers” group accused in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque go on trial]</ref><ref>[http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/4944/print Azerbaijan security officers arrest 18 suspects in Baku mosque explosion]</ref>
* http://en.azvision.az/President-signs-decree-on--20426-xeber.html

* http://en.apa.az/azerbaijan-politics/domestic-news/president-ilham-aliyev-signs-decree-on-changing-national-security-ministry-s-composition.html
==Foreign ties==
The MNS has ties to several [[foreign intelligence]] agencies including [[National Intelligence Organization (Turkey)|National Intelligence Organization]], [[Mossad]] and others.<ref name="info">[http://www.agentura.ru/dossier/azer/ Спецслужбы Азербайджана] {{ru icon}}</ref>

==Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–2015)==
=== Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan ===
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|-
!rowspan=2 style="width:25px;"|№
!colspan=2 style="width:280px;"|President
!colspan=3|Term of office
! style="width:100px;" rowspan="2"|Political party
! style="width:160px;" rowspan="2"|Government
!rowspan=2|Elected
!rowspan=2 style="width:20px;"|Ref
|-
!Portrait
!width=180px|Name
!Took Office
!Left Office
!Days
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
!rowspan=2 style="background:{{Independent/meta/color}};"| 1
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|'''[[Ilhuseyn Huseynov]]'''<br>{{small|''İlhüseyn Hüseynov''<br/>(1925–2006)}}
|18 October 1991
|17 May 1992
|{{age in days|1991|10|18|1992|5|17}}
| style="background:{{Independent/meta/color}};"|[[Independent (politician)|<span style="color:black">Independent<br /></span>]]
|''1.'' [[Ayaz Mutallibov]]
|1991
|rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|title=Azərbaycan xüsusi xidmət orqanlarının rəhbərləri|url=http://www.mns.gov.az/az/pages/57-55.html|website=www.mns.gov.az|accessdate=9 November 2014|language=Azerbaijani}}</ref>
|-
|colspan=6 align=left|{{small|[[1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown]].}}
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
|-
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
!rowspan=2 style="background:{{Azerbaijani Popular Front Party/meta/color}};"| 2
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|'''[[Fakhraddin Tahmazov]]'''<br>{{small|''Fəxrəddin Təhməzov''<br/>(1951–)}}
|17 May 1992
|3 June 1993
|{{age in days|1992|5|17|1993|6|3}}
| style="background:{{Azerbaijani Popular Front Party/meta/color}};"|[[Azerbaijani Popular Front Party|<span style="color:white">Azerbaijani Popular Front Party<br /></span>]]
| —
|1992
|rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|title=Təhməzov Fəxrəddin Ayət oğlu: 1992 may -1993 iyun|url=http://www.mns.gov.az/az/pages/57-56.html|website=www.mns.gov.az|accessdate=9 November 2014|language=Azerbaijani}}</ref>
|-
|colspan=6 align=left|
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
|-
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
!rowspan=2 style="background:{{Azerbaijani Popular Front Party/meta/color}};"| 3
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|'''[[Nariman Imranov]]'''<br>{{small|''Nəriman İmranov''<br/>(1944–)}}
|3 June 1993
|15 October 1994
|{{age in days|1993|6|3|1994|10|15}}
| style="background:{{Azerbaijani Popular Front Party/meta/color}};"|[[Azerbaijani Popular Front Party|<span style="color:white">Azerbaijani Popular Front Party<br /></span>]]
|''3.'' [[Abulfaz Elchibey]]
|1993
|rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|title=İmranov Nəriman Şamo oğlu: 1993 iyun -1994 oktyabr|url=http://www.mns.gov.az/az/pages/57-57.html|website=www.mns.gov.az|accessdate=9 November 2014|language=Azerbaijani}}</ref>
|-
|colspan=6 align=left|{{small|Imprisoned for life for coup d'état attempt in 1994, pardoned in 2002.}}
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
|-
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
!rowspan=2 style="background:{{New Azerbaijan Party/meta/color}};"| 4
|rowspan=2|
|rowspan=2|'''[[Namig Abbasov]]'''<br>{{small|''Namiq Abbasov''<br/>(1940–)}}
|22 March 1995
|23 July 2004
|{{age in days|1995|3|22|2004|7|23}}
| style="background:{{New Azerbaijan Party/meta/color}};"|[[New Azerbaijan Party|<span style="color:white">New Azerbaijan Party<br /></span>]]
|''4.'' [[Heydar Aliyev]]
|1995
|rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|title=Abbasov Namiq Rəşid oğlu: 1994 oktyabr -2004 iyul|url=http://www.mns.gov.az/az/pages/57-58.html|website=www.mns.gov.az|accessdate=9 November 2014|language=Azerbaijani}}</ref>
|-
|colspan=6 align=left|{{small|[[1994 Baku Metro bombings]]; foiled [[1995 Azeri coup d'état attempt]].}}
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
|-
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
!rowspan=2 style="background:{{New Azerbaijan Party/meta/color}};"| 5
|rowspan=2|[[File:Eldar Mahmudov.jpeg|80px]]
|rowspan=2|'''[[Eldar Mahmudov]]'''<br>{{small|''Eldar Mahmudov''<br/>(1956–)}}
|23 July 2004
|17 October 2015
|{{age in days|1995|3|22|2015|10|17}}
| style="background:{{New Azerbaijan Party/meta/color}};"|[[New Azerbaijan Party|<span style="color:white">New Azerbaijan Party<br /></span>]]
|''5.'' [[Ilham Aliyev]]
|2004
|rowspan=2|<ref name=Min>{{cite web |url=http://www.mns.gov.az/aboutmns_en.html |title= MNS Profile. Eldar Mahmudov |accessdate=2010-11-15}}</ref>
|-
|colspan=6 align=left|{{small|[[Operation Black Belt]]; [[Attack on Abu Bakr Mosque of Baku]]; Foiled [[2007 Baku terrorist plot]]; [[Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting]].}}
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Politics of Azerbaijan]]
*[[Terrorism in Azerbaijan]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.mns.gov.az/indexen.html Official site of Ministry of National Security]
*[http://www.mns.gov.az/mnsfuncsions_ru.html Regulations Extract]

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[[Category:Counter-intelligence agencies]]
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[[Category:1991 establishments in Azerbaijan]]
[[Category:2015 disestablishments in Azerbaijan]]

Revision as of 12:03, 26 May 2017

Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan was reorganized by Decree № 706 of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated December 14, 2015 and government agencies of State Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service were established on the base of this ministry. In accordance with President Ilham Aliyev`s Decrees dated Dec.14, 2015 Madat Guliyev was appointed the chief of the State Security Service and Orkhan Aslanov the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service.


Refernces


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