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.The history of the security bodies of Azerbaijan
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.
Organization
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 Nakhchivan
MNS operations In 2008, the MNS arrested a dozen of Al-Qaeda members who were involved in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque.“Forest brothers” group accused in terrorist attack on Abu Bakr Mosque go on trialAzerbaijan security officers arrest 18 suspects in Baku mosque explosion
Foreign ties and cooperation The MNS has ties to several foreign intelligence agencies including National Intelligence Organization, Mossad and others.Спецслужбы Азербайджана The MNS helped thwart the 2000 assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin by Iraqi citizen Kenan Ahmed Rustam in Martyrs' Lane.
Ministers (1991–2015) Ministers of National Security of Azerbaijan №PresidentTerm of officePolitical partyGovernmentElectedRefPortraitNameTook officeLeft officeDays 1Ilhuseyn Huseynov18 October 199117 May 1992Independent1. Ayaz Mutallibov1991 2Fakhraddin Tahmazov17 May 19923 June 1993Azerbaijani Popular Front Party —1992 3Nariman Imranov3 June 199315 October 1994Azerbaijani Popular Front Party3. Abulfaz Elchibey1993 4Namig Abbasov22 March 199523 July 2004New Azerbaijan Party4. Heydar Aliyev1995 5 Eldar Mahmudov23 July 200417 October 2015New Azerbaijan Party5. Ilham Aliyev2004
See also List of leaders of Azerbaijan's state security agencies Politics of Azerbaijan Terrorism in Azerbaijan
References
External links Official site of Ministry of National Security Regulations Extract