DRAFT RESOLUTION: ENGLISH OR SPANISH
Sponsors: The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea
Signatories: The Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, The French Republic, Republic
of Indonesia, The Kingodm of Saudi Arabia, The State of Qatar, People’s Republic of China,
The Italian Republic, The State of Israel, The Islamic Republic of Iran
Committee: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Agenda: Countering the use of of communications and information technologies for criminal
purposes with special emphasis organized crime groups
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming that terrorism in all forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious
threats to international peace and security,
Acknowledging the need for collaborative efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of cyber
attacks on a State’s infrastructure,
Expressing concern that cyber attacks on critical infrastructure could significantly disrupt the
functioning of government and private sector alike and cause knock-on effects beyond the
infrastructure sector,
Noting the work of relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, entities,
forums and meetings on enhancing protection, security, and resilience of critical
infrastructure,
Conscious of the profound changes brought about by the digitalisation, convergence and
continuing globalization of cyber networks,
Concerned by the risk that computer networks and electronic information may also be used
for committing criminal offenses
1) Suggests for regular briefings to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, as per
Article 24 of the United Nations Charter, on the progress of the cybersecurity
situation;
2) Suggests the formation of an International Cyber Peacekeeping Force
which would ensure peace and security in cyberspace;
3) Suggests member nations to actively fund, to the ICPF, so they can help maintain
peace and security in cyberspace;
4) Recommends governments to censor parts of websites, and advertisements to stop
scams being spread through the same;
5) Recommends keeping a check and recognising a fraud number of trusted E-commerce
websites, and limiting them;
6) Recommends governments to utilise quantum cryptography to develop ultra secure
communication channels;
7) Urges governments to recognise and monitor all platforms they find suspicious;
8) Urges all the member nations to adopt laws that view an intentional breach of privacy
on cyber networks as a criminal law;
9) Urges governments and civilians to use double encrypted code;
10) Urges member nations to extensively train their national and investigation agencies in
the art of cyber investigation and how to identify cybercrime;
11) Urges all the governments to include lessons about cybercrime, cybersafety, and
cyberspace in their education curriculum to make the young population aware of the
situation, which will make sure that these crime rates reduce;
12) Suggests member nations to pass laws that protect online transactions or electronic
payments;
13) Recommends the EU to improvise on the GDPR by implementing these solutions:
a) The EU should also provide grants or funding to NGOs to help them achieve
GDPR compliance without diverting resources from their primary missions,
b) Hopes the EU would offer free or subsidised legal and technical assistance to
start-ups to help them navigate GDPR requirements,
c) Suggests the EU to collaborate with the UN to help implement this across
other countries;
14) Suggests the establishment of a digital geneva convention that will protect and
safeguard the privacy of people in cyberspace, the key clauses at the centre of the
Digital Geneva Convention should commit states to:
a) Refrain from attacking systems whose destruction would adversely impact the
safety and security of private citizens such as but not limited to:
i) critical infrastructures,
ii) hospitals,
iii) electric companies;
b) Refrain from attacking systems whose destruction could damage the global
economy, or otherwise cause major global disruption;
c) Refrain from hacking personal accounts or private data held by journalists and
private citizens;
d) Refrain from using information and communications technology to steal the
intellectual property of private companies, including trade secrets or other
confidential business information, to provide competitive advantage to other
companies or commercial sectors,
e) Refrain from inserting or requiring “backdoors” in mass-market commercial
technology products,
f) Agree to a clear policy for acquiring, retaining, securing, using, and reporting
of vulnerabilities – that reflects a strong mandate to report them to vendors –
in mass market products and services,
g) Exercise restraint in developing cyber weapons and ensure that any that are
developed are limited, precise, and not reusable, States should also ensure that
they maintain control of their weapons in a secure environment,
h) Agree to limit proliferation of cyber weapons, Governments should not
distribute, or permit others to distribute, cyber weapons and should use
intelligence, law enforcement, and financial sanctions tools against those who
do,
i) Limit engagement in cyber offensive operations to avoid creating mass
damage to civilian infrastructure or facilities,
j) Assist private sector efforts to detect, contain, respond, and recover in the face
of cyberattacks, In particular, enable the core capabilities or mechanisms
required for response and recovery, including Computer Emergency Response
Teams (CERTs), Intervening in private sector response and recovery would be
akin to attacking medical personnel at military hospitals.