The Information Office of China's State Council, the cabinet, is scheduled to issue the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007 on Thursday.

Sources with the office said this is in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 issued by the US Department of State on March 11.

This is the ninth consecutive year that the Information Office of the State Council has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the US State Department annual report.

China calls on int'l community to pool efforts in combating terrorism.

(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2008)