In its decision in the case of "Chiragov and Others v. Armenia" the European Court of Human Rights, sitting as a Grand Chamber, has by a majority declared the application admissible.

Law on Defamation may be adopted this year.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) traveled November 28-30 to Yerevan and Baku, says the statement of OSCE published on the website of the organization.

Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers plan to meet.

Members of the Swedish Azerbaijanis Congress met with the Swedish parliamentarians, who visited the occupied Nagorno Karabakh region in 2006 not informing the Azerbaijani government.