ComputersUN Jan 26The United States is sabotaging the development of a convention on combating the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for criminal purposes, the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN believes. The commentary of the Russian mission was published in response to a press release from the US Permanent Mission to the UN dated January 20, in which the American side presented the so-called «list of facts» about «the restoration of American leadership in the UN in the first year of Joe Biden's presidency.» «To put it mildly, far from the reality of the assertion of the US Permanent Mission that it allegedly helped in 2021 to promote the «created at the initiative of the United States» framework for the responsible behavior of states in cyberspace,» the Russian mission notes. «The United States opposed the creation of this committee from the very beginning, tried in every possible way to disrupt the adoption of a resolution on its establishment at the initiative of Russia, and is still sabotaging the development of a universal convention on combating the use of ICT for criminal purposes under various pretexts,» the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN points out. Moscow recalls that the initiative to develop and agree on the responsible behavior of states in cyberspace «belongs not to the United States, but to Russia, which back in 1998 was the first member state to submit this issue to the UN General Assembly and has been promoting this concept for more than twenty years.» The United States, according to the Russian side, has been actively opposed until recently. In particular, the United States was against the creation of an open-ended UN Working Group (OEWG) on international information security and voted against the Russian resolution that proposed this, the Russian mission to the UN noted. «When it became clear that most members of the international community supported Russian initiatives, our American colleagues began to «change their shoes in the air». And now they have already gone so far as to appropriate other people's merits,» the Russian permanent mission said in a comment. The United States openly supported a provocation inspired by other Western countries led by Great Britain, the purpose of which was to disrupt meaningful discussions in the group under organizational pretexts,» the message of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation reads. .jpg» />Russia submitted to the UN a draft convention on combating cybercrime
