Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan
Template:Short description Template:Infobox government agency The 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.
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]
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Organization
Template:More citations needed section 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:
MNS operations
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 and cooperation
The MNS has ties to several foreign intelligence agencies including National Intelligence Organization, Mossad and others.[4] The MNS helped thwart the 2000 assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin by Iraqi citizen Kenan Ahmed Rustam in Martyrs' Lane.[5][6][7]
Ministers (1991–2015)
Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan
| № | President | Term of office | Political party | Government | Elected | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color;"| 1 | Ilhuseyn Huseynov İlhüseyn Hüseynov (1925–2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
18 October 1991 | 17 May 1992 | Script error: No such module "age". | style="background:Template:Party color;"|Independent |
1. Ayaz Mutallibov | 1991 | [8] | |
| 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color;"| 2 | Fakhraddin Tahmazov Fəxrəddin Təhməzov (1951–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
17 May 1992 | 3 June 1993 | Script error: No such module "age". | style="background:Template:Party color;"|Azerbaijani Popular Front Party |
— | 1992 | [9] | |
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color;"| 3 | Nariman Imranov Nəriman İmranov (1944–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
3 June 1993 | 15 October 1994 | Script error: No such module "age". | style="background:Template:Party color;"|Azerbaijani Popular Front Party |
3. Abulfaz Elchibey | 1993 | [10] | |
| Imprisoned for life for coup d'état attempt in 1994, pardoned in 2002.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color;"| 4 | Namig Abbasov Namiq Abbasov (1940–2024)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
22 March 1995 | 23 July 2004 | Script error: No such module "age". | style="background:Template:Party color;"|New Azerbaijan Party |
4. Heydar Aliyev | 1995 | [11] | |
| 1994 Baku Metro bombings; foiled 1995 Azeri coup d'état attempt.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color;"| 5 | File:Eldar Mahmudov.jpeg | Eldar Mahmudov Eldar Mahmudov (1956–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
23 July 2004 | 17 October 2015 | Script error: No such module "age". | style="background:Template:Party color;"|New Azerbaijan Party |
5. Ilham Aliyev | 2004 | [12] |
| Operation Black Belt; Attack on Abu Bakr Mosque of Baku; Foiled 2007 Baku terrorist plot; Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||||
See also
- List of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies
- Politics of Azerbaijan
- Terrorism in Azerbaijan
References
External links
Template:Ministries of Azerbaijan Template:Azerbaijan topics Template:Domestic national intelligence agencies
- ↑ The history of the security bodies of Azerbaijan Template:Webarchive
- ↑ “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 Template:Webarchive Template:In lang
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