The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area (c) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and to reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed; (d) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; 4. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it, and encourages them to share their experience in this regard; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the implementation of the present resolution; 6. Decides to continue its consideration of the matter at its sixty-seventh session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty, UN General Assembly Resolution 62/149, 18 December 200767 The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Recalling also the resolutions on the question of the death penalty adopted over the past decade by the Commission on Human Rights in all consecutive sessions, the last being its resolution 2005/59, in which the Commission called upon States that still maintain the death penalty to abolish it completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions, Recalling further the important results accomplished by the former Commission on Human Rights on the question of the death penalty, and envisaging that the Human Rights Council could continue to work on this issue, Considering that the use of the death penalty undermines human dignity, and convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement and progressive development of human rights, that there is no conclusive 67  Another resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly one year later, on 18 December 2008, on the implementation of the 2007 General Assembly resolution 62/149, UN Doc. A/63/430/Add.2, draft res. I., 18 December 2008. 27