The Head of State appointed the head of the Department to the Security Council
Baku/29.11.23/Turan: Today, President Ilham Aliyev signed an order appointing Ildrim Veliyev as head of the Department for Control over Execution and Personnel Issues of the Security Council of Azerbaijan.
Since 2019, Veliyev has been a chief consultant in the Security Council, and before that, he worked as deputy head of the department in the Prosecutor General's Office for supervision of the execution of laws in the implementation of investigative and operational investigative activities in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the State Security Service and the State Border Service. –06B--
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