Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan

Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan

Milli Təhlükəsizlik Nazirliyi
Agency overview
Formed	1 November, 1991
Jurisdiction	Government of Azerbaijan
Headquarters	Baku, Azerbaijan
Agency executive	Eldar Mahmudov, Director General
Website	www.mns.gov.az/

The Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security (MNS, Azerbaijani: Milli Təhlukəsizlik Nazirliyi) is an intelligence agency within the cabinet of Azerbaijan. The MNS is a central executive authority which carries out the competencies referred 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 carries out intelligence, counter-intelligence, protection of state secret, revealing, preventing, precluding and detection of crimes.

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 have 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

The Ministry is 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 which Azerbaijan is the part, its statute and other normative-legal acts of the MNS.

The MNS headquarters are in the following cities:

• Baku
• Ganja
• Nakhichevan City

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 Mossad and others.^[4]

Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–present)

Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan

№	President		Term of office			Political party	Government	Elected	Ref
	Portrait	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Days
1		Ilhuseyn Huseynov İlhüseyn Hüseynov (1925–2006)	18 October 1991	17 May 1992	212	Independent	1. Mütəllibov II	1991	[5]
			1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown.
2		Fakhraddin Tahmazov Fəxrəddin Təhməzov (1951–)	17 May 1992	3 June 1993	382	Azerbaijani Popular Front Party	—	1992	[6]
3		Nariman Imranov Nəriman İmranov (1944–)	3 June 1993	15 October 1994	499	Azerbaijani Popular Front Party	3. Elçibəy I	1993	[7]
			Imprisoned for life for coup d'état attempt in 1994, who pardoned in 2002.
4		Namig Abbasov Namiq Abbasov (1940–)	22 March 1995	23 July 2004	3411	New Azerbaijan Party	4. H.Əliyev II	1995	[8]
			1994 Baku Metro bombings; foiled 1995 Azeri coup d'état attempt.
5		Eldar Mahmudov Eldar Mahmudov (1940–)	23 July 2004	Present	3863	New Azerbaijan Party	5. İ.Əliyev I	2004	[9]
			Operation Black Belt; Attack on Abu Bakr Mosque of Baku; Foiled 2007 Baku terrorist plot; Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting.

See also

• Politics of Azerbaijan
• Terrorism in Azerbaijan

References

External links

• Official site of Ministry of National Security
• Regulations Extract

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