Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan
Milli Təhlükəsizlik Nazirliyi | |
File:MNS emblem.jpg | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1 November, 1991 |
Dissolved | 14 December 2015 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Azerbaijan |
Headquarters | Baku, Azerbaijan |
Website | www.mns.gov.az/ |
The Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security (MNS, 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, corporations, individuals. The MNS also carried out intelligence, 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 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.[1]
Organization
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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:
Current MNS cases
- In 2008, the MNS arrested a dozen of Al-Qaeda members who were involved in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque.[2][3]
Foreign ties
The MNS has ties to several foreign intelligence agencies including National Intelligence Organization, Mossad and others.[4]
Ministers (1991–2015)
Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan
See also
References
- ^ The history of the security bodies of Azerbaijan Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ “Forest brothers” group accused in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque go on trial
- ^ Azerbaijan security officers arrest 18 suspects in Baku mosque explosion
- ^ Спецслужбы Азербайджана Archived 2010-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Template:Ru icon
- ^ "Azərbaycan xüsusi xidmət orqanlarının rəhbərləri". www.mns.gov.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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