The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 119. Calls on OSCE participating States to respect the human dignity and equal rights of all their citizens by implementing to the fullest extent all OSCE commitments concerning human rights, fundamental freedoms, pluralistic democracy, and the rule of law; 120. Expresses concern over recent and flagrant manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, discrimination against Muslims, Christians or members of other religions, persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons and racism, and stresses the vital role οf tolerance, understanding, and co-οperation in the achievement and preservation of stable democratic societies; 121. Calls on participating States to adopt the working definition of anti-Semitism at the Vienna Ministerial Council of 7-8 December 2017; 122. Encourages participating States to reinvigorate human dimension discussions within the OSCE by agreeing to meeting agendas and dates in a timely and transparent fashion and by avoiding restrictions on civil society participation while noting that State-sponsored NGOs do not contribute to genuine dialogue; 123. Reiterates the need for participating States to preserve the rule of law, democratic institutions, prohibitions against torture, and civilian oversight of military, paramilitary, security, and intelligence services in the course of addressing national security threats; 124. Calls on participating States contracting private military and security companies for outsourcing missions or tasks to meet their obligations under international law and encourages parliaments to draw up national legislation that efficiently regulates the activities of such companies at home and abroad on the basis of existing international standards in order to ensure democratic control of the private security industry; 125. Calls upon participating States applying the death penalty to declare an immediate moratorium on executions, and urges all countries to reconfirm that they will never apply this inhuman and degrading punishment, and notes with concern debates on its reintroduction in a number of participating States where it has been abolished; 126. Calls on participating States, where applicable, to cease immediately the harassment, imprisonment, mistreatment, and disappearance of political opponents, human rights defenders, journalists, and other members of civil society; 127. Calls on OSCE participating States to guarantee and safeguard, at all times, the rights of parliamentarians to fully exercise their mandate, in line with the Tbilisi Declaration; 128. Urges participating States to guarantee full access for domestic and international monitors to review prison conditions; 129. Expresses solidarity with parliamentarians who are detained or imprisoned, and declares willingness to observe their conditions of detention or imprisonment, including through site visits; 15