On May 26 RA President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on ratifying the Statute of the National Security Council.
According to the decree, the National Security Council shall reveal the problems existing in the domestic, foreign, military, political, social, food, energy, ecological, informational, demographic, scientific-technical and other spheres referring to security and protection of national interests, organize, coordinate and control the works carried out in the direction of implementing the doctrines and state programs envisaged by the National Security Strategy Program. The National Security Council coordinates the activity of state bodies and assesses their effectiveness in the direction of implementing the decisions adopted in the sphere of ensuring national security, sets the main directions of the state’s strategic development, national security and raising national competitiveness, takes decisions in the direction of their implementation. In compliance with the National Security Strategy, it implements the strategic reforms of the armed forces, the law-enforcement bodies, the tax and customs systems and assesses their effectiveness. The President of the Republic of Armenia heads the Council. The President of the Council confirms the Council’s annual program, ratifies the Council’s decisions. The responsibilities of the Council’s Secretary are also set by the decree. The National Security Council includes the President of the Republic of Armenia, Speaker of the National Assembly, Prime Minister, Head of the Constitutional Court, Vice Prime Minister, Secretary of the National Security Council, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the President Administration, Prosecutor General, Head of the National Security Service, Head of the Police, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Force, Chair of the National Assembly Committee of Foreign Affairs, Chair of the National Assembly Committee of European Integration.