A/RES/75/282*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 June 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 112
Countering the use of information and communications
technologies for criminal purposes
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 26 May 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.87/Rev.1 and
A/75/L.87/Rev.1/Add.1)]
75/282.
Countering the use of information and communications
technologies for criminal purposes
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations,
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,
Recalling its resolution 74/247 of 27 December 2019, in which it decided that
the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on
Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal
Purposes should agree on an outline and modalities for its further activities, to be
submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session for its consideration
and approval,
1.
Welcomes the election of the officers of the Ad Hoc Committee to
Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of
Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, at its
organizational session, on 10 May 2021; 1
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 21 June 2021.
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Ms. Faouzia Boumaiza Mebarki (Algeria) as Chair; Mr. Arsi Dwinugra Firdausy (Indonesia) as
Rapporteur; and Mr. Emil Stojanovski (Australia), Mr. Wu Haiwen (China), Mr. Claudio Peguero
Castillo (Dominican Republic), Mr. Mohamed Hamdy Elmolla (Egypt), Mr. Markko Künnapu
(Estonia), Mr. Chitaru Shimizu (Japan), Ms. Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno (Nicaragua),
Mr. Terlumun George-Maria Tyendezwa (Nigeria), Ms. Dominika Krois (Poland), Mr. Antonio de
Almeida Ribeiro (Portugal), Mr. Dmitry Bukin (Russian Federation), Ms. Kitty Sweeb
(Suriname) and Mr. James Walsh (United States of America) as Vice-Chairs.
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