GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE
(Excerpt from the Annex No 1 of the Charter of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia confirmed by Prime Minister’s decision № A 860-L of 28 June 2018)
14. The goals of the National Security Service shall be the following:
(1) intelligence activities;
(2) counter-intelligence activities;
(3) military counter-intelligence activities;
(4) protection of state border;
(5) fight against crime.
15. The objectives of the National Security Service shall be the following:
(1) ensuring — within the scope of its competence — sovereignty, inviolability of state borders, territorial integrity, constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia, rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens, as well as enhancing defence capacity of the Republic of Armenia;
(2) gathering intelligence information for the purpose of ensuring the security of the Republic of Armenia, enhancing its economic, scientific, technical and defence potential, as well as strengthening the security of the Republic of Armenia;
(3) ensuring the security of military and industrial complex, security in the fields of atomic energy, transport and communication, economy, finance and industry, as well as of strategic facilities and in the field of primary research and development of the Republic of Armenia;
(4) disclosing, preventing and disrupting intelligence and other subversive activities of special services and organisations of foreign states, as well as of separate individuals, aimed against the security of the Republic of Armenia;
(5) disclosing, preventing and disrupting crimes that became known during the exercise of powers provided for by law, searching for persons having committed those crimes or persons suspected of committing those crimes;
(6) ensuring — within the scope of its competence — security in state bodies and institutions of the Republic of Armenia, Armed forces and other troops of the Republic of Armenia;
(7) informing the Prime Minister and, upon the assignment thereof, bodies of the state administration system and territorial administration bodies about dangers posing threat to the security of the Republic of Armenia;
(8) ensuring the security of diplomatic representations of foreign states in the territory of the Republic of Armenia;
(9) ensuring its own security (including counteraction against technical intelligence means of foreign states in the system of the National Security Service), implementing measures aimed at the protection of information of the National Security Bodies, containing state secrets, using technical means for the purpose of preventing and disrupting infiltration of special services and organisations of foreign states, criminal groups and separate individuals;
(10) ensuring the economic security of the Republic of Armenia and fight against economic crimes within the scope of its competence;
(11) carrying out the protection of the state border of the Republic of Armenia, pursuant to the legislation of the Republic of Armenia;
(12) developing and implementing, jointly with the relevant state bodies, measures aimed at fight against corruption in state and local self-government bodies, illegal trafficking and smuggling of weapons and narcotic drugs related to foreign states, legalisation of proceeds of crime, armed groups, criminal groups, persons and organisations that intend violent change of constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia;
(13) disclosing, preventing and disrupting acts of terrorism;
(14) participating in the development and implementation of measures aimed at the protection of information containing state secrets, controlling the process of protection of state secrets in state bodies, military formations and organisations, implementing, under the prescribed procedure, measures with regard to granting permission of access to information containing state secrets to citizens;
(15) implementing measures aimed at ensuring the security of the organisations and citizens of the Republic of Armenia beyond its borders;
(16) registration and centralised record-registration of radioelectronic communication means, radio data and radio transmissions through radio monitoring, disclosure of radioelectronic means, radio transmissions and radio waves posing threat to the national security of the Republic of Armenia or used for illegal purposes;
(17) designating and allocating radio frequencies, acquiring radio frequency domains from the organisations in charge, as well as renting communication lines and communication channels from the relevant organisations of the Republic of Armenia for the exclusive use of government communication and other types of special communication in the Republic of Armenia and outside its territory;
(18) providing the President, Prime Minister, relevant officials of state and local self-government bodies with means of government communication and other types of special communication, as well as organising cryptographic and technical security of enciphered and cryptographic communication of representations of the Republic of Armenia in the Republic of Armenia and foreign states and exercising state control over those activities;
(19) participating in the development of state policy in the fields of protection of state information resources within information and telecommunication systems of the Republic of Armenia, cryptographic and technical protection of information, counteraction against technical intelligence, as well as implementing that policy;
(20) ensuring operational postal services (except for the diplomatic mail) for the President of the Republic of Armenia, National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Government, Prime Minister and ministries, autonomous bodies, territorial administration bodies, Supreme Judicial Council, courts, Prosecutor’s Office, Investigation Committee, Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia, Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia and other state bodies, military units (except for the military units of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia) located in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, as well as diplomatic representations accredited in the Republic of Armenia and diplomatic representations of the Republic of Armenia in foreign states;
(21) transferring correspondence of state and diplomatic bodies, having special significance or containing secret or top secret, and other official correspondence, as well as ensuring preservation thereof.
(point 15 amended by No 51-L of 18 January 2024)
