The Intelligence Agency of Republic of North Macedonia is the national civilian intelligence and security agency of the Republic of North Macedonia. It was set up as a separate body of state administration under the Law on the Intelligence Agency adopted in April 1995.
Competence
The Intelligence Agency (АR) as a special body of state administration and in compliance with the Law of AR is an intelligence service authorized for collection, analysis and processing of the intelligence information relevant for security, defense, political, economic and other interests of the Republic of North Macedonia.
Therefore, the Agency has established and is continually developing appropriate mechanisms for prevention, anticipation, early warning and risks estimation. It informs the state authorities of North Macedonia about the processes that generate threats for the national security and for the permanent and vital principles in order to establish stable secure environment and sustainable long-term development.
The Intelligence Agency represents one of the basic pillars of the intelligence and security system of North Macedonia. It has been constituted upon the intelligence concept as a long-term strategic process for national interests and priorities protection and in accordance with the modern standards for prevention and current security threats and risks management.
The Intelligence Agency is continuously aiming towards enlargement of its capacities in those environments where there are risks for the vital and permanent national interests and is building strategic partnerships that are relevant for the state and represent support of the international security policies. The dynamics of the processes and the joint dependence of the states in the region and in broader surrounding compulsory impose the need for cooperation of the intelligence services on both bilateral and multilateral level.
Civil control over the Agency
The Assembly of North Macedonia oversees the work of the Agency through a corresponding commission. The Commission submits a report to the Assembly of North Macedonia about the activity performed once a year at the most. Prior to submitting the report the commission is obliged to communicate the same to the Director of the Agency.
Organizational structure
Directors # Portrait Name Mandate commenced on Mandate finished on Political Party 1991-1995 see State Security Administration1 Vlado Popovski 1995 ? SDSM2 Aleksa Stamenkovski ? ? SDSM3 Dragi Grozdanovski 2000 2002 VMRO-DPMNE4 Dosta Dimovska 2002 2003 VMRO-DPMNE5 Dragi Grozdanovski 2nd term 2003 2004 VMRO-DPMNE6 Lazar Kitanovski 2004 2006 SDSM7 Kire Naumov 2006 2007 SDSM8 Viktor Dimovski 2007 2009 VMRO-DPMNE9 Aleksandar Bocinov 2009 2013 VMRO-DPMNE10 Nakje Chulev 2013 2017 Unaffiliated11 Zoran Ivanov 2017 2019 Unaffiliated12 Erold Musliu 2019 incumbent Unaffiliated
See also List of Directors of Intelligence Agency North Macedonia Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Police Agency) Military Service for Security and Intelligence-G2 (Military Agency)
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