A/C.3/74/L.11 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 11 October 2019 Original: English Seventy-fourth session Third Committee Agenda item 107 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes Belarus, Cambodia, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Russian Federation and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): draft resolution Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes The General Assembly, Noting that information and communications technologies, while having enormous potential for the development of States, create new opportunities for perpetrators and may contribute to a rise in the levels and complexity of crime, Noting also the potential of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, in preventing and combating the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, Concerned by the increase in the rate and diversity of crimes committed in the digital world and their impact on the stability of critical infrastructure of States and enterprises and on the well-being of individuals, Recognizing that diverse criminals, including traffickers in persons, are taking advantage of information and communications technologies to carry out criminal activities, Stressing the need to enhance coordination and cooperation among States in combating the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, including by providing technical assistance to developing countries, upon their request, to improve national legislation and frameworks and build the capacity of national authorities to deal with such use in all its forms, including its prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution, and emphasizing in this context the role that the United Nations, in particular the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, plays, 19-17623 (E) 151019 *1917623* A/C.3/74/L.11 Recalling Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 22/8 of 26 April 2013, 1 in which the Commission welcomed the efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in fulfilling its mandate to provide technical assistance and capacity-building on cybercrime, Noting the work carried out by the Commission on Crime Preve ntion and Criminal Justice under the auspices of an open-ended intergovernmental expert group which was established to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and the private sector, Recalling its resolution 65/230 of 21 December 2010, in which the General Assembly endorsed the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing World, Noting the discussions held during the first to fifth meetings of the open -ended intergovernmental expert group, held in Vienna from 17 to 21 January 2011, 25 to 28 February 2013, 10 to 13 April 2017, 3 to 5 April 2018 and 27 to 29 March 2019, which reaffirmed the importance of the study and the need to further enhance international discussion on and cooperation against cybercrime, Noting also the importance of the international and regional instruments in the fight against cybercrime and the ongoing efforts to examine options to strengthen existing and propose new national and international legal or other responses to the use of information and communications technologies for criminal pur poses, Recalling its resolutions 53/70 of 4 December 1998, 54/49 of 1 December 1999, 55/28 of 20 November 2000, 56/19 of 29 November 2001, 57/53 of 22 November 2002, 58/32 of 8 December 2003, 59/61 of 3 December 2004, 60/45 of 8 December 2005, 61/54 of 6 December 2006, 62/17 of 5 December 2007, 63/37 of 2 December 2008, 64/25 of 2 December 2009, 65/41 of 8 December 2010, 66/24 of 2 December 2011, 66/181 of 19 December 2011, 67/27 of 3 December 2012, 68/193 of 18 December 2013, 68/243 of 27 December 2013, 69/28 of 2 December 2014, 70/237 of 23 December 2015, 71/28 of 5 December 2016, 72/196 of 19 December 2017, 73/27 of 5 December 2018 and 73/187 of 17 December 2018, Recalling the reports of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security, 2 Recalling also Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution 26/4 of 26 May 2017, 3 in which the Commission expressed appreciation for the work done by the Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime and requested the Expert Group to continue its work, with a view to examining options to strengthen existing responses and propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime, Reaffirming the importance of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the use of information and communications technologies, __________________ 1 2 3 2/3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 10 and corrigendum (E/2013/30 and E/2013/30/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D. A/65/201, A/68/98 and A/70/174. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 10 (E/2017/30), chap. I, sect. D. 19-17623 A/C.3/74/L.11 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General, which was prepared pursuant to resolution 73/187, entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”; 4 2. Decides to establish an open-ended ad hoc intergovernmental committee of experts, representative of all regions, to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, taking into full consideration existing efforts at the national and international levels on combating the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, in particular the work and outcomes of the open ended intergovernmental Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to allocate the necessary resources in order to organize and support the work of the ad hoc intergovernmental committee within the United Nations regular budget; 4. Invites donor countries to provide assistance to the United Nations in ensuring the active engagement of developing countries in the work of the ad hoc intergovernmental committee, including by covering travel costs and accommodation expenses; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session the item entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”. __________________ 4 19-17623 A/74/130. 3/3