70 See Death Penalty Information Center (www.essential.org/dpic/foreignnatl.html). AI AMR
51/27/98.
71 Information received by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and AI ACT 50/04/99 (The Death Penalty
World Wide. Developments in 1998, May 1999).
72 AI Report 1999, p. 356.
73 Information received from the OSCE Liaison Office in Central Asia, and Interfax, 7 July 1999.
74 OSCE Liaison Office in Central Asia, Human Rights Spot Report, 2 July 1999, and Reuters, 31
January 2000.
75 See e.g. AI EUR 62/29/99.
ANNEX 1
OSCE COMMITMENTS RELATING TO
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Concluding Document of the 1989 Vienna Follow-up Meeting
Questions relating to security in Europe
(24) With regard to the question of capital punishment, the participating States note
that capital punishment has been abolished in a number of them. In participating
States where capital punishment has not been abolished, sentence of death may be
imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the
time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to their international
commitments. This question will be kept under consideration. In this context, the
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