Baku/21.06.19/Turan: The public will have to wonder what caused the recent changes in the positions of the heads of security agencies and what the consequences will be. Various political forces and experts do not specifically comment on these appointments.
The first conclusions that are visible to the naked eye are the weakening of the position of Ramiz Mehdiyev, the head of the presidential administration and until yesterday Secretary of the Security Council. He has lost influence on the security forces; from now on he will not be able to play a decisive role.
According to experts, much will depend on the authority that Ramil Usubov, the new head of the Security Council, will receive (or will not receive). Until now, the Security Council remained a formal structure without staff and certain functions. Will the country's top leadership want to create in the country the Security Council, by analogy with the American or Russian? If so, the Security Council secretary will become an influential figure.
The second loser in this situation is, of course, Madat Guliyev. After retiring from the post of head of the State Security Service, to the position of Minister of Defense Industry, he is not any more one of the four main security officials of the country and that says it all.
However, the fact that the ministry liquidated earlier was restored under him speaks about the attitude towards his merits to the authorities. However, it is also certain that his work as head of the State Security Service did not suit the management. The reasons can be guessed, but the appointment of personnel officer Ali Nagiyev to this post indirectly confirms that the management found it necessary to have a more competent leader in this post. By the way, this is the first appointment after 2005 of the head of the State Security Service from this structure, and not from outside.
According to observers in Azerbaijan, these shifts are not talking about any serious reforms. Most likely, this is a shuffle of cards within one of the main groups in power.
It is also possible that these are not the last personnel changes and new resignations will soon take place. -02B-
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