A/HRC/41/5/Add.1 (b) Noted: Consider an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step towards the abolition of the death sentence…" Noted recommendations 7. 136.1, 136.2, 136.3, 136.4, 136.5, 136.6, 136.7, 136.8, 136.9, 136.10, 136.11, 136.12, 136.13, 136.14, 136.70, 136.74, 136.76, 136.77, 136.78, 136.79, 136.80, 136.81. 8. The content of the noted recommendations is either accession to a particular international human rights instruments asked for abolition of the death penalty and/ or establishing a moratorium on executions, and reducing the number of crimes carrying capital punishment. Each clustered recommendation will be explained as follows: (a) Accession to international human rights instruments: Afghanistan is already a state party to seven core International Human Rights Conventions and three optional protocols that demonstrates its commitment to promote and protect human rights. Taking into consideration the fact that the accession to international human rights instruments obligates the state party to ensure the compliance of its provisions at the national level, Afghanistan is willing to review its national structures prior to considering the accession to further international human rights instruments and thereafter decides upon them in due time. (b) Abolition of the death penalty/Reducing the number of crimes carrying capital punishment: In 2017, a commission has been created under the supervision of the Deputy Attorney General of Afghanistan in order to investigate and review the sentenced cases of the death penalty. The commission finalised its work in 2018 and reported to the Office of President. The proposal of the committee was to commute the death penalty to the long-term imprisonment in the large number of the cases which was accepted by the President and being implemented. Then a special committee aimed at monitoring the cases of death penalty, has been established in 2018 within the Office of the Attorney General of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This committee reviewed 80 cases of death penalty recommended commuting majority of them to imprisonment and asked for further information in the reaming cases. The new penal code of Afghanistan has decreased to the large extent the application of the death penalty to the serious crimes indicated in the Article 170 of the Penal Code of Afghanistan. 3