The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Extract from European Parliament Resolution of 7 October 2010 on the World Day Against the Death Penalty The European Parliament, … 1. Reiterates its long-standing opposition to the death penalty in all cases and under all circumstances and emphasises once again that abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights; 2. Condemns all executions wherever they take place; strongly calls on the EU and its Member States to enforce the implementation of the UN resolution on a universal moratorium on executions with a view to total abolition in all states which still practice the death penalty; calls on the Council and the Commission to take action in order to progressively restrict its use while insisting that it be carried out according to international minimum standards; expresses its deep concern regarding the imposition of the death penalty on minors and on persons with mental or intellectual disability and calls for their immediate and definitive ending; 3. Urges the EU to use all tools of diplomacy and cooperation assistance available to it to work towards the abolition of the death penalty; 4. Calls upon states applying the death penalty to declare an immediate moratorium on executions; (…) 6. Encourages the 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; calls on the Council and the Commission to encourage those remaining countries which have not signed and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to do so, and those Member States that have not signed Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights on the death penalty to do so; 7. Calls on OSCE member states, in particular the United States and Belarus, to adopt an immediate moratorium on executions; 53