Paris, 26 September 2022 (TDI): The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of France and Germany released a joint statement on the Ministerial meeting they organized on 23 September, on the occasion of the 77th United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week.
#France & #Germany organized on September 23rd 2022 a ministerial meeting, on the occasion of the 77th #UNGA High-Level Week, on the topic “Shaping Global Cybersecurity : A Call for Action to Promote Responsible State Behaviour and Capacity-Building”.
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The topic of the meeting was “Shaping Global Cybersecurity: A Call for Action to Promote Responsible State Behaviour and Capacity-Building”.
Speakers at the Meeting
Alongside Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock, the French and German Foreign Ministers, several ministers, and civil society leaders took part in the meeting.
Olta Xhaçka, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Ranko Krivokapic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Wopke Hoekstra, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and Bujar Osmani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Northern Macedonia, were the speakers at the meeting.
They were accompanied by Aïssata Tall Sall, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, Tanja Fajon, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Kai Sauer, Under-Secretary of State of Finland, Chris Painter, President of the Global Forum for Cyber Expertise, Luisa Parraguez Kobek, and International Security Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico).
Representatives from Canada, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union also took part in the meeting.
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Proceedings of the Meeting
During the meeting, all attendees to the discussion agreed that cybersecurity was one of the most important areas of current policy and that it was necessary to defend the rules-based international order both online and offline.
The delegates emphasized the significant effort that had been done within the UN framework to establish laws that guarantee stability and security in cyberspace.
Nevertheless, they recognized that significant harm could still be caused by malicious cyber activity and that, in response, further developing and improving the rules was paramount.
Participants also emphasized the need to develop global capacities and assist in the application of these laws given that cyberspace has no national boundaries.
Against this backdrop, participating States of the “Shaping Global Cybersecurity” event welcomed the proposal to establish a United Nations Programme of Action.
The Programme of Action will advance responsible State behavior in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security, as a permanent, inclusive, action-oriented, and results-based mechanism.
