On the recommendation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President Vahagn Khachaturyan has appointed Samvel Movsisyan as the Head of the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces and the deputy chief of the General Staff.

Also, Movsisyan has been relieved from the post of Deputy Head of the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces.

For almost a year, there was no head of the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Armenia. Before that, the head of this department was Major General Arayik Harutyunyan, who worked in that position from August 2021 to February 2022.