In accordance with the presidential decree on the basis of the National Security Ministry was established the Foreign Intelligence Service, and its head was appointed Orkhan Sultanov; and the State Security Service, the head by Madat Guliyev, Acting Minister of National Security.
Both services to prepare and submit within one month the draft provisions, the structures and staff.
Cabinet was instructed to finance services in the years 2015-2016 from the funds provided for the Ministry of National Security. They were also charged with conduct logistical, legislative and other activities in connection with the creation of new services.
This means that the Ministry of National Security established on the basis of the KGB Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in November 1991, does not exist any more.—0--
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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