The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area ment, and promoting the establishment of a global moratorium on the use of the death penalty in the meantime. The international community, including the United Nations, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the European Parliament, continued to work in support of abolition of the death penalty globally. In its Annual Session, held in Oslo from 6 to 10 July 2010, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution condemning all executions and calling upon states that still have not abolished the death penalty to declare an immediate moratorium. A resolution against the use of the death penalty was adopted by the European Parliament on 7 October 2010, ahead of the World and European Day Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October. On 21 December, the Sixty-fifth plenary session of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. The resolution, the third on this theme adopted since 2007, received the support of more states than ever before, with 107 voting in favour, 38 against, and 36 abstaining.4 The resolution calls upon all states to make available relevant information with regard to their use of the death penalty, to move towards the restriction of the use of the death penalty and the reduction of the number of offences for which it may be imposed, and to establish a moratorium on executions, with a view to abolishing the death penalty. 4  UN General Assembly website, GA/SHC/3996, 11 November 2010, <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ gashc3996.doc.htm>. vi