DEC. 8 2022 (The Bulletin) — Armenia’s parliament passed a government motion to set up a foreign intelligence service. PM Nikol Pashinyan has said that one of the reasons that Azerbaijan was able to win a 2020 war for Nagorno-Karabakh was because it maintained an element of surprise as Armenia’s intelligence gathering in Azerbaijan had been weak. By setting up a new foreign intelligence service, the Armenian government hopes to address this weakness.
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— This story was published in issue 531 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on Dec. 19 2022
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