The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
death penalty, particularly with the media, law enforcement officials, policy-makers
and the general public;
53. Further encourages the activities of non-governmental organizations working for
the abolition of the death penalty;
54. Commits to monitoring the issue of the death penalty and to considering possible
initiatives and ad hoc missions in retentionist countries, so as to urge government
authorities to adopt a moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing them.
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;
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