of the law on the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which obliges the participating States.

The death penalty (as for many years in Italy) had only theoretical application, in wartime for extremely serious crimes of a military nature.

Mission to Kazakhstan, supported by the Italian government, to help reaffirm the recently adopted moratorium on executions and positively vote on the General Assembly Resolution UN for a universal moratorium on the death penalty.

former Italian Ambassador to Kazakhstan (now Ambassador to Iraq).

Italy also recommended that Kazakhstan maintain a moratorium on executions and assess the possibility of lifting it as part of the universal periodic review process at the UN Human Rights Council.

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