Ministry of National Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan

The Ministry of National Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a central executive authority which carries out the competencies referred to it by the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the field of intelligence, counter-intelligence, protection of state secret, revealing, preventing, precluding and detection of crimes. The Ministry is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the decrees of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the decisions and decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the international treaties which the Republic of Azerbaijan the part, its statute and other normative-legal acts of the Ministry of National Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The official web-site, Facebook and Twitter pages of the Ministry of National Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan serves to bring information on the main activity directions of the ministry from the initial source to the local and world community. International cooperation of the Ministry of National Security with foreign special services, security and law-enforcement agencies is conducted through information and experience exchange, participation at the international events, signing treaties, agreements and protocols.International cooperation of the Ministry of National Security is based on the national legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan.Currently, the Ministry of National Security maintains bilateral and multilateral cooperation links with special services and law-enforcement agencies of more than 50 countries of the world. Multilateral cooperation mechanisms reflects first of all relations within different international organizations. Ministry of National Security has beneficial multilateral cooperation relations within Conference of the Turkish Speking Countries’ Special Services, Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of the CIS Member States, Conference of Heads of Intelligence and Security Services of the CIS Member States, GUAM - Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, NATO etc.