A draft law on annexes and amendments to draft law on “Freedom of Assembly” was discussed at the Parliament’s Standing Commission on Human Rights on Thursday.

US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee rejected changes to the country’s defense budget for fiscal year 2009, which proposed to restore 232 millions dollars for a planned missile defense system in Poland and Czech Republic, APA reports.

New chairman has been appointed to OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). APA reports that under the decision of OSCE Council of Ministers, representative of Slovenia Janes Lenarcik has been appointed new director of OSCE/ODIHR.

“The protection of cultural monuments in Nagorno Karabakh is important issue”, said Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director General, APA reports.

Everyone can appeal to “Hot Line” Service about violation of rights by forwarding a petition, and with complaints. The ones appealed to “Hot Line” Service are either responded right on time or invited to our office to get his or her petition. The appeals accepted in “Hot Line” Service are investigated by the lawyers of International Working Group, and the process of the work is checked till the existing violation of the right is liquidated.

In order to overpass the crisis’s impact on the mortgage crediting market, since mid September Federal Reserve System has reduced the rate seven times by 3.25 percentage points to 2%, while the administration of the European Central Bank stated that it is not going to change the key percentage rate which is 4%.