Promoting technical assistance and capacity-building to strengthen
national measures and international cooperation to combat
cybercrime, including information-sharing
A/RES/74/173
Welcoming Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution
26/4 of 26 May 2017, 1 in which the Commission decided that the open-ended
intergovernmental Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime
would dedicate its future meetings to examining, in a structured manner, each of the
main issues dealt with in the draft comprehensive study on cybercrime prepared by
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime under the auspices of the Expert
Group, encouraged the Expert Group to develop possible conclusions and
recommendations for submission to the Commission and requested th e Office to
periodically collect information on new developments, progress made and best
practices identified,
Welcoming also the workplan of the Expert Group for the period 2018–2021,
which was adopted by the Expert Group at its fourth meeting, held in Vienna from
3 to 5 April 2018,
Noting that the Expert Group will dedicate its next meeting to international
cooperation and prevention, taking into account the information on those issues in the
draft comprehensive study on cybercrime, comments submitted by Member States
and recent developments at the national and international levels,
Recalling its resolution 73/186, in which, inter alia, it noted with appreciation
the fourth meeting of the Expert Group and called upon Member States to support the
workplan of the Expert Group,
Recalling also its resolution 73/187, in which it requested the Secretary-General
to seek the views of Member States on the challenges that they faced in countering
the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes and to
present a report based on those views for its consideration at its seventy -fourth
session,
Recalling further that, in its resolution 73/187, it decided to include in the
provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session an item entitled “Countering the use
of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes ”,
Stressing the need to enhance coordination and cooperation among Member
States in combating cybercrime, including by providing technical assistance to
developing countries, upon request, to improve national legislation and enhance the
capacity of national authorities to deal with cybercrime in all its forms, including its
prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution, emphasizing in this context the
role that the United Nations, in particular the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, plays, and reaffirming the importance of respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms in the use of information and communication technologies,
Welcoming with appreciation the work of the Expert Group and its focus on
substantive discussions among practitioners and experts from Member States,
Noting that the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime 2 is a tool that may be used by States parties to provide international cooperation
for preventing and combating transnational organized crime and that, for some States
parties, may be used in some cases of cybercrime,
Conscious of the challenges faced by all States in combating cybercrime, and
emphasizing the need to reinforce technical assistance and capacity-building
activities, upon request and based on national needs, taking into account the specific
challenges faced by developing countries in this regard,
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chap. I, sect. D.
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