The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 (e) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; 5. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it, and encourages them to share their experience in this regard; 6. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider acceding to or ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty;4 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution; […] United Nations General Assembly Resolution 69/186: Moratorium on the use of the death penalty (2014) The General Assembly, […] Convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes to respect for human dignity and to the enhancement and progressive development of human rights, and considering that there is no conclusive evidence of the deterrent value of the death penalty, Noting ongoing local and national debates and regional initiatives on the death penalty, as well as the readiness of an increasing number of Member States to make available to the public information on the use of the death penalty, and also, in this regard, the decision by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 26/2 of 26 June 20145 to convene biennial high-level panel discussions in order to further exchange views on the question of the death penalty, […] 1. Expresses its deep concern about the continued application of the death penalty; 4  United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1642, No. 14668. 5  See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. V, sect. A. 53