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29 December / 2024

The article of Mr.Pyotr Litvishko "The First Global Treaty against Cybercrime: from Geopolitical Confrontation towards Professional Compromise"

In August 2024, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes (hereinafter referred to as the Ad Hoc Committee), established by UN General Assembly Resolution 74/247 of 27 December 2019, approved the draft UN Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes (hereinafter referred to as the Convention or UN Convention), and submitted it to the General Assembly for adoption. The treaty has been drafted over four years, with Ad Hoc Committee sessions and inter-sessional consultations held at UN headquarters in New York and Vienna.