Service

The functions of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia are aimed at ensuring the national security of the Republic of Armenia, organizing and conducting counterintelligence activities, identifying threats to the country's security, obtaining and analyzing information, and supporting the secure operation of the Armed Forces and state authorities. The Service is responsible for ensuring information security and cybersecurity, coordinating the protection of the information systems of state authorities, and managing activities related to responding to computer security incidents. It also participates in measures carried out during periods of martial law or a state of emergency, cooperates with foreign intelligence and security services as well as law enforcement agencies, ensures the conduct of scientific research in the field of national security, reviews citizens' applications and complaints, and performs other functions prescribed by law.

The objectives of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia include carrying out counterintelligence and military counterintelligence activities, protecting the state border, and combating crime. The Service’s tasks are aimed at ensuring the sovereignty, territorial integrity, constitutional order, and the rights and lawful interests of citizens of the Republic of Armenia, as well as strengthening the country’s defense capability. The Service collects and analyzes information necessary for national security, identifies and prevents intelligence, terrorist, and other subversive activities directed against the security of the Republic of Armenia, combats economic crimes, corruption, and the illegal trafficking of weapons and narcotic substances, ensures the protection of state secrets, state border security, information and cybersecurity, and safeguards secure communications and official correspondence of state bodies and diplomatic missions.

According to the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On National Security Bodies,” the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia is vested with powers to ensure the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia, protect the rights and lawful interests of citizens, and strengthen the country’s defense capability. The national security bodies conduct operational-search and counterintelligence activities, identify, prevent, and suppress intelligence, terrorist, and other subversive activities directed against state security, combat corruption, economic crimes, and the illegal trafficking of weapons and narcotics, and ensure the protection of the state border and state secrets. The Service coordinates information security and cybersecurity measures, protects governmental information systems and critical infrastructure, cooperates with foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies, ensures the security of state institutions, diplomatic missions, and strategically important facilities, and carries out other powers established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.