The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 (e) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; 6. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it, and encourages them to share their experience in this regard; 7. 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;7 8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution; […] 7  United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638 62