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Izvestia: Russia will raise the issue of behavior in cyberspace at the UN General Assembly

August 28, 2017

Russia will raise the issue of international rules of conduct in the information sphere at the UN General Assembly, which opens on September 12 in New York. The special representative of the Russian President on international cooperation in the field of information security Andrei Krutskikh told the Izvestia.  It is reported that the main proposals of Russia on this topic will be made public at the BRICS summit.

Krutskikh clarified that at the same time "important shifts will begin to occur much earlier": the effectiveness of proposals concerning international norms of behavior in cyberspace will be first proved by the example of regional platforms - CSTO, BRICS and SCO.

"The theme will definitely be discussed at the General Assembly, but very important decisions will be made in the first week of September, when BRICS will meet (the summit of the BRICS leaders will be held in China on September 3-5.  No one refuses, and we continue to work on their implementation, "the presidential envoy said.

Earlier, at a meeting of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on International Information Security, Russia proposed to include in the final report of the meeting provisions on the need to draft a resolution of the UN General Assembly on the rules of responsible behavior of states in the information space. As Krutskikh said in an interview with Izvestiya in July, "unfortunately, not all states share our peacekeeping approach in trying to uphold the" right of the strong "in the digital sphere, persistently promote their own vision of international information security based not on prevention but on regulation of Conflicts ".

As Krutskikh notes, now Russia, "in spite of the failure of a group of UN governmental experts, on the contrary, is speeding up this process." According to the diplomat, international norms of behavior in the information sphere "will begin to take shape" thanks to the efforts of the CSTO, BRICS, SCO members, and then the UN. "This topic is in demand and increasingly popular," - he concluded.
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