Annex 3 Relevant Recommendations Made at OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meetings (2002-2006) Recommendations to OSCE participating States: • The death penalty should be abolished; • Belarus, the United States, and Uzbekistan should institute a moratorium on executions; • Those OSCE participating States that have moratoria in place should take steps to abolish the death penalty; • The death penalty should only be imposed for the most serious crimes and in a manner not contrary to the states’ international commitments, including fairtrial guarantees;149 • Those states that have not yet abolished the death penalty should not impose it on people who, at the time of the crime, were under 18 years of age or suffering from any form of mental disorder; • Those OSCE participating States that have not yet done so should ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; • Those OSCE participating States that are members of the Council of Europe and have not done so should ratify Protocol 6 and Protocol 13 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; • Those OSCE participating States that retain the death penalty should be guided by the ECOSOC Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty and UN Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2005/59 on the Question of the Death Penalty; • OSCE participating States in which the death penalty is not used should not extradite anyone to a state where there is a risk of their being condemned to death; 149  Vienna Document of 1989. 69