{"id":164016,"date":"2025-06-28T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=164016"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:56:24","slug":"andranik-simonyan-appointed-national-security-service-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/164016\/","title":{"rendered":"Andranik Simonyan appointed National Security Service chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signed a decree<\/a> appointing Andranik Simonyan as Director of the National Security Service (NSS).<\/p>\n

The decree reads: “Pursuant to Part 5 of Article 9 of the Law on Public Service and Part 2 of Article 4.1 of the Law on National Security Bodies, Andranik Simonyan is hereby appointed Director of the National Security Service.”<\/p>\n

Simonyan had been serving as acting director of the NSS following the June 18 dismissal of former NSS chief Armen Abazyan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signed a decree appointing Andranik Simonyan as Director of the National Security Service (NSS). The decree reads: “Pursuant to Part 5 of Article 9 of the Law on Public Service and Part 2 of Article 4.1 of the Law on National Security Bodies, Andranik Simonyan is hereby appointed Director of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":164012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}