Draft agenda of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly drawn up by the Bureau of the Assembly on 12 December 2011.

The State Migration Service (SMS) received 48 250 applications from the foreigners and stateless persons during 11 months of this year.

The Azerbaijani parliament is discussing the draft law on “Military job and military service”.

Report on the children's rights situation, developed by the government of Azerbaijan, will be discussed at a session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on January 16 - 18, 2012.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov discussed ways of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict over phone.

Eight years pass since the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev died.

“We expect Azerbaijan’s President to sign a pardon decree on the eve of the New Year,” Human Rights Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova.

The Azerbaijani parliament approved the draft laws On the criteria of needs in 2012 and On the subsistence minimum for 2012.

Baku hosts the international conference, titled “Twentieth Year of Independence.

“The Azerbaijani government is efficiently cooperating with all international organizations, including Transparency International, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House.”