A/HRC/18/20 61. The continued efforts of the Human Rights Council, including through its universal periodic review mechanism and special procedures, as well as those of human rights treaty bodies, are crucial in monitoring the recent trends towards the abolition of the death penalty and to providing appropriate guidance to States in this matter. United Nations agencies, intergovernmental regional bodies and NGOs should continue to support States in abolishing the death penalty through their advocacy, monitoring and technical cooperation activities. 62. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had initially interpreted decision 2/102 as extending previous reports of the Commission of Human Rights and providing for an annual reporting cycle. Until recently, this interpretation had been deemed to have received the tacit approval of member States. However, an objection was placed on the record in 2010, albeit in the context of another report which also referred to decision 2/102 as the basis for its annual reporting. OHCHR has thus reviewed the said decision, and concluded that the Human Rights Council sought to fill a technical gap by ensuring that reports which were deemed to be submitted to the Human Rights Commission at its sixtysecond session would be extended by one year and transferred to the subsequent substantive session of the Human Rights Council. With this transition period over, and an objection now on record with regard to the initial interpretation of annual reporting cycles, if the Human Rights Council wishes such reporting to be continued, a new Human Rights Council resolution or decision on the matter should be tabled. 17