United Nations
A/RES/62/17
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 93
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2007
[on the report of the First Committee (A/62/386)]
62/17.
Developments in the field of information and
telecommunications in the context of international security
The General Assembly,
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 and 61/54 of 6 December 2006,
Recalling also its resolutions on the role of science and technology in the
context of international security, in which, inter alia, it recognized that scientific and
technological developments could have both civilian and military applications and
that progress in science and technology for civilian applications needed to be
maintained and encouraged,
Noting that considerable progress has been achieved in developing and
applying the latest information technologies and means of telecommunication,
Affirming that it sees in this process the broadest positive opportunities for the
further development of civilization, the expansion of opportunities for cooperation
for the common good of all States, the enhancement of the creative potential of
humankind and additional improvements in the circulation of information in the
global community,
Recalling, in this connection, the approaches and principles outlined at the
Information Society and Development Conference, held in Midrand, South Africa,
from 13 to 15 May 1996,
Bearing in mind the results of the Ministerial Conference on Terrorism, held in
Paris on 30 July 1996, and the recommendations that it made, 1
Bearing in mind also the results of the World Summit on the Information
Society, held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 (first phase) and in Tunis
from 16 to 18 November 2005 (second phase), 2
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07-46479
See A/51/261, annex.
See A/C.2/59/3 and A/60/687.