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technologies for criminal purposes” was approved by the majority of votes. He emphasized
that the main idea of the document on the initial level is to start relevant wide political
discussion within the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the issue of
misuse of ICT. The resolution provides an inclusion of the issue “Countering the Use of
Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes” on the provisional
agenda of its 74th session and requests the Secretary-General to present a report to the
General Assembly at its 74th session.
49.
In conclusion, Mr. Chernukhin stressed that publication and dissemination of
extremist statements as well as holding racists or xenophobes flesh mobs, cross-border
computer attacks on critical infrastructure can be used to heat up the situation in any county
to the point of “social explosion”. He concluded that the ability to uphold human rights in
the information sphere is being held hostage to the absence of universal international legal
basis under the United Nations auspices. Such a globally reaching problem should be
resolved by the whole international community under the auspices and leading discussion
forum of the United Nations, where all States will be able to speak and to bring their
proposals with the consideration to the sovereign rights and peculiarities of their legal
systems. In this way, it would be possible to set up a reliable platform for discussion of the
conceptual aspects of international cooperation in countering cybercrime on the basis of the
world wide use of pre-existing specialised regional legal instruments as well as exchange of
best practices in this sphere. Mr. Chernukhin expressed hope that all this will serve as a
next step towards a world without cybercriminals.
50.
During the interactive discussions, the representative of the Republic of the Gambia
thanked Mr. Chernukhin for the presentation and pointed out few questions. Firstly he
wanted to clarify how the figure of mentioned in the presentation forty millions of
cybercriminals existing nowadays has been got, weather it is any specific criteria that was
used to label them as cybercriminals and is there any segregated data on how these forty
millions of cybercriminals are divided into categories. The delegate also noted that the
Russian Federation is a member of the United Nations Security Council and wondered why
the five permanent members could not lead on the issue of cybercrime, which is in such an
importance. He clarified that he is talking not only about the crime committed but also
about the various forms of crime in terms of reputation and in terms of inciting hate and
developing another lay of racism, that as they thought had been denounced. The ChairRapporteur raised the question about the successful examples of combating terrorists and
pulling down their websites, wondered how successful it was with the ISIL and weather this
experience can be extended to other organisations and the cyberspace in general.
51.
In response, Mr. Ernest Chernukhin noted that as to the figures, this is an
information from independent professional organisations that adopt their professional
statistics gathering approach. He continued that according to independent experts of
Interpol and Europol the economic crimes are in the heart of all of cybercrimes, therefore
the challenge faced before our law enforcements is to identify, arrest and retrain the
cyberhooligans. Answering the second question Mr. Chernukhin expressed regret that the
question of ICT security has never been included into the agenda of the United Nations
Security Council and recommended to the representative of Gambia that his State could
raise an issue of ICT security to be considered by the UN Security Council. He underlined
that this is a topic that has a long deserved consideration as a standalone political issue. In
his response to the Chairperson-Rapporteur Mr. Chernukhin emphasised that the terrorist
organisation ISIL and other organisations operated on certain territories have raised this
problem to the highest level. Terrorists themselves have found new ways of using internet
for their own ends. He noted that terrorist cells are very effective in recruiting. Terrorists
have started to encrypt their own networks, their own cells and therefore in countering
terrorist activity the security services of many States have united and showed a good
example of how to work. He concluded that, in view of the reports of security services, the
trend is that we are unlikely to see any significant improvements soon however, an effective
cooperation on this basis need to be achieved.
52.
At its 5th meeting on 10 April, the Ad Hoc Committee continued its consideration of
agenda item 5 on “Racism, in modern information and communication technologies (racial
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