ArmInfo. The NSS of Armenia will become a politicized structure only if it is transformed into a ministry. The head of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan stated this on February 1 in an interview with journalists, commenting on the need to restructure the National Security Service to the ministry in order to increase its accountability and remove it from the field of influence of the prime minister.
According to him, the minister is a political post, and if the National Security Service becomes a ministry, it will, perforce, be headed by a political figure who will begin to promote the interests of his political team. As for the accountability of the service, then, according to him, after his appointment as head of the National Security Service, information that is not secret was always available to the public. Responding to the remark that the army is also not a politicized structure, in the meantime, the minister heads it, Vanetsyan noted that the minister directs the Ministry of Defense itself, and the head of the General Staff deals with the army. At the same time, he stressed that if a decision was made to restructure the National Security Service into a ministry, he would submit to this.