The United Nations (UN) has on Wednesday, adopted two of the resolutions over International Information Security (IIS), proposed by Russian government and backed by Indian government, to mark a progress toward creating a first code of conduct of the world, in digital arena.
According to news reports, the US general assembly has, this month, adopted two resolutions – “Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security” and “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”, and hence opened a new chapter on IIS in the global discussion.
The base reason of two documents designed is to create a foundation for a peaceful global interaction and also to prevent confrontation, war or any other violence actions.
Both the resolution has been supported by many countries and re-announced by above 30 countries, but however, it failed to receive support from the European Union (EU) and the United States.
The first resolution, which was adopted on December 5, aimed to protect all country’s interest in cyber security arena despite of those country’s technology development level, and also included numbers of innovations with 13 international rules, principles and norms of behavior of states inside arena.
The second resolution, which was adopted on December 17, aimed to launch a broad transparent political talks over combating information crime and to search for and create results to a pressing challenges.
The resolution aimed to promote a global consensus and also working out practical and concrete approached to counter any cyber-crime in the absence of the effective international legal organizations.
In an official statement, issued by the Russia foreign ministry, stated: “It is notable that breakthrough decisions aimed at strengthening IIS have been adopted in the anniversary year of 2018. These decisions aim to protect the interests of all countries in the sphere of cyber security regardless of their level of technological development.”
The statement further stated: “These are crucial provisions, such as the commitment to use information and communications technology (ICT) exclusively for peaceful purposes, to respect the sovereignty of states in the information space, to cooperate in the fight against the criminal or terrorist use of ICTs, and to prevent the proliferation of malicious ICT tools and techniques and the use of harmful hidden functions.”