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PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONFIDENTIAL HEARINGS?

Politics


The National Security Service plans to open up a new operative-technical department with new specialists and authorizations and the RA President will appoint the head of the department. This department must be in charge of overseeing telephone conversations and take operative-investigative measures.


The new department will be created according to the plan regarding “Activities of the operative-investigative department and making changes and additions to the law” presented today to the National Assembly.


“If the RA President appoints the official, he must personally take on the responsibility for this department,” said today deputy Armen Martirosyan.


The National Security Service had a similar service and it is simply being renamed as a department with new specialists and authorizations.


Armen Martirosyan asked Deputy Head of the NSS Romik Harutyunyan if the RA President was going to be responsible for releasing information regarding personal telephone calls taking into account the publications of the oppositionists’ personal phone calls in the presses after the events of March 1. The deputy is concerned that all personal telephone calls may be heard, which is a violation of the RA Constitution.


In response to that, the Deputy Head of the NSS said:


“Your questions have nothing to do with our changes.”


The NA committee for defense, national security and internal affairs gave its consent to the plan. Head of the committee Arthur Aghabekyan called on everybody to present the comments and proposals for the changes in written form.