TODAY NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL IS AT STAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT, ARTUR BAGHDASARIAN SAYS

Noyan Tapan

Se p 18, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The Regulations of the National
Security Council and its staff were established by RA President
Serzh Sargsyan’s two decrees, which establish the powers of the
National Security Council and its staff. Artur Baghdasarian, the
Secretary of the National Security Council, reported at the September
18 press conference. According to him, today the Council is at the
stage of institutional establishment, though contacts with similar
structures of CIS countries have been already established. This year,
as A. Baghdasarian stated, the Council has done two important things,
organization of the Rubezh-2008 command and headquarters exercise
and Armenia’s assuming chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO).

According to the above mentioned decrees, the National Security Council
reveals current problems related to RA national security and protection
of national interests in domestic, foreign, political, military,
economic, social, foodstuffs, energy, environmental, information,
demographic, scientific-research, and other spheres. Besides,
the National Security Council should be engaged in organization,
coordination, control of work on fulfillment of conceptions and
state programs envisaged by the national security strategic program,
as well as making of proper decisions for their implementation.