FINALISED COPY
3
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CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT OF THE
ASEAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSECURITY
SINGAPORE, 19 SEPTEMBER 2018
1.
The 3rd ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity (AMCC) was
convened in Singapore on 19 September 2018. The AMCC was chaired by Mr S.
Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-Charge
of Cybersecurity of the Republic of Singapore.
2.
The Closed Door Session of the AMCC was attended by Ministers and
Senior Officials responsible for ICT and Cybersecurity from all ASEAN Member
States. The ASEAN Secretary-General was also in attendance.
3.
AMCC participants welcomed the adoption of the ASEAN Leaders’
Statement on Cybersecurity Cooperation by ASEAN Leaders at the 32nd ASEAN
Summit in April 2018, in recognition of the growing urgency and sophistication
of transboundary cyber threats.
4.
In response to ASEAN Leaders’ direction to closely consider and submit
recommendations on feasible options of coordinating ASEAN cybersecurity
efforts among various platforms of the three pillars of ASEAN, AMCC
participants agreed that there is a need for a formal ASEAN cybersecurity
mechanism to consider and to decide on inter-related cyber diplomacy, policy and
operational issues.
5.
Participants recommended that the proposed mechanism should be flexible
and also take into account multiple dimensions, including economic
considerations.
6.
Participants welcomed Singapore’s work on developing the first draft of
the proposal on the proposed mechanism for ASEAN sectorals’ consideration,
with inputs from the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN Member States. They also
urged that the process be expedited, given the urgency of the cyber threat.
7.
Participants agreed that, while the proposal for an ASEAN cybersecurity
mechanism is being considered, the AMCC should continue to serve as the
interim and non-formal ASEAN platform for cybersecurity.
8.
In light of the region’s burgeoning digital economy and increasingly interconnected societies, participants reaffirmed the importance of a rules-based
cyberspace as an enabler of economic progress and betterment of living standards,
and agreed in-principle that international law, voluntary and non-binding norms
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