The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Annex 1 OSCE Commitments and Resolutions on the Death Penalty OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session, Oslo, 6 – 10 July 2010, Resolution on the Death Penalty (…) The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 45. Condemns all executions wherever they take place; 46. Calls upon participating States applying the death penalty to declare an immediate moratorium on executions; 47. 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; 48. Condemns in particular the resumption of executions in Belarus, despite the political initiatives of the European Union towards the Government, made also with a view to encouraging reforms in the field of human rights; 49. 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 United Nations General Assembly resolution 62/149, adopted on 18 December 2007, and resolution 63/168, adopted on 18 December 2008; 50. 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; 51. Calls upon Latvia to amend its Criminal Code in order to abolish the death penalty for murder with aggravating circumstances, if committed during wartime; 52. Calls upon the retentionist participating States to encourage the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and OSCE Missions, in co-operation with the Council of Europe, to conduct awareness-raising activities against recourse to the 17