The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Annex 1 OSCE Commitments and Resolutions on the Death Penalty OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session, Vilnius, 19 June – 3 July 2009, Resolution on a Moratorium on the Death Penalty and Towards Its Abolition … The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 37. Condemns all executions wherever they take place; 38. Calls upon participating States applying the death penalty to declare an immediate moratorium on executions; 39. Encourages the participating States that have not abolished the death penalty to respect safeguards protecting the rights of those facing the death penalty as laid down in the United Nations Economic and Social Council Safeguards; 40. Calls on Belarus to take immediate steps towards abolition of the death penalty by promptly establishing a moratorium on all death sentences and executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty as provided by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 62/149, adopted on 18 December 2007, and resolution 63/168, adopted on 18 December 2008; 41. Calls upon the Government of the United States of America to adopt a moratorium on executions leading to the complete abolition of the death penalty in federal legislation and to withdraw its reservation to Article 6(5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 42. Calls upon the Republic of Kazakhstan, with a view to the complete abolition of the death penalty, to amend its Criminal Code in accordance with its constitutional amendment of 21 May 2007; 18