Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање (УБК) Uprava za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje (UBK) Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim (ASK) | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1995 [1] |
Preceding agencies | |
Dissolved | 2019 |
Jurisdiction | World |
Headquarters | Skopje, North Macedonia |
Employees | Classified |
Annual budget | Classified |
Ministers responsible | |
Website | www.mvr.gov.mk |
The Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian : Управа за безбедност и контраразузнавање, Albanian: Administrata për siguri dhe kundërzbulim), commonly referred to by the acronym UBK, was the domestic counterintelligence and security agency of North Macedonia. [2] Its headquarters were located in Skopje, and the agency was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. [3]
The agency was founded in the People's Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. [4] Officially, the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence, was founded in 1995 under the name Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence. [4]
This agency was succeeded by the National Security Agency. [5]
# | Portrait | Name | Mandate commenced on | Mandate finished on | Political Party |
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Before 1991 see: UDBA State Security Administration (Macedonian: Служба за Државна Безбедност) | |||||
1 | Slobodan Bogoevski [6] | 1991 | 1995 | SDSM [7] | |
Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Дирекција за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | |||||
2 | Dobri Veličkovski [8] [9] | 1995 | 1998 | SDSM [7] | |
3 | Zoran Veruševski [10] [11] | 1998 | 1998 | none | |
4 | Bojan Bojanovski [12] | 1998 | 2001 | Democratic Alternative [7] | |
5 | Goran Mitevski [13] | 2001 | 2002 | VMRO-DPMNE [7] | |
6 | Nikola Spasovski [14] [15] | 2002 | 2003 | VMRO-DPMNE [7] | |
7 | Siljan Avramovski | 2003 | 2004 | SDSM [7] | |
Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Macedonian: Управа за Безбедност и Контраразузнавање) | |||||
8 | Mile Zečević | 2004 | 2006 | SDSM [7] | |
9 | Sašo Mijalkov | 2006 | 2015 | VMRO-DPMNE [7] | |
10 | Ljupčo Andonovski | 2015 | 2016 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
11 | Vladimir Atanasovski | 2016 | 2017 | VMRO-DPMNE | |
12 | Goran Nikolovski | 2017 | 2019 | none [16] |
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