The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
43. Calls upon Latvia to amend its Criminal Code in order to abolish the death penalty for murder with aggravating circumstances if committed during wartime;
44. Calls upon the retentionist participating States to encourage ODIHR and OSCE
Missions, in co-operation with the Council of Europe, to conduct awareness-raising
activities against recourse to the death penalty, particularly with the media, law enforcement officials, policy-makers and the general public;
45. Further encourages the activities of NGOs working for the abolition of the death
penalty.
Concluding Document of the 1994 Budapest Summit
Capital Punishment
19. The participating States reconfirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and
Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment.
Concluding Document of the 1992 Helsinki Summit
The participating States
(58) Confirm their commitments in the Copenhagen and Moscow Documents concerning the question of capital punishment.
Document of the 1991 Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE
(36) The participating States recall their commitment in the Vienna Concluding
Document to keep the question of capital punishment under consideration and reaffirm their undertakings in the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting to exchange
information on the question of the abolition of the death penalty and to make available to the public information regarding the use of the death penalty.
(36.1) They note
(i) that the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty entered into force on
11 July 1991;
(ii) that a number of participating States have recently taken steps towards the abolition of capital punishment;
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