Copenhagen 1990 (17.1) - recall the commitment undertaken in the Vienna Concluding Document to keep the question of capital punishment under consideration and to co-operate within relevant international organizations; (17.2) - recall, in this context, the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations, on 15 December 1989, of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; (17.3) - note the restrictions and safeguards regarding the use of the death penalty which have been adopted by the international community, in particular article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; (17.4) - note the provisions of the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty; (17.5) - note recent measures taken by a number of participating States towards the abolition of capital punishment; (17.6) - note the activities of several non-governmental organizations on the question of the death penalty; (17.7) - will exchange information within the framework of the Conference on the Human Dimension on the question of the abolition of the death penalty and keep that question under consideration; (17.8) - will make available to the public information regarding the use of the death penalty. (18) The participating States (18.1) - note that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has recognized the right of everyone to have conscientious objections to military service; (18.2) - note recent measures taken by a number of participating States to permit exemption from compulsory military service on the basis of conscientious objections; (18.3) - note the activities of several non-governmental organizations on the question of conscientious objections to compulsory military service; (18.4) - agree to consider introducing, where this has not yet been done, various forms of alternative service, which are compatible with the reasons for conscientious objection, such forms of alternative service being in principle of a non-combatant or civilian nature, in the public interest and of a non-punitive nature; (18.5) - will make available to the public information on this issue; (18.6) - will keep under consideration, within the framework of the Conference on the Human Dimension, the relevant questions related to the exemption from compulsory OSCE Human Dimension Commitments 75