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⋮ 15/09/2016
This first France-U.S. Cyber Bilateral Meeting strengthened the longstanding partnership between France
and the United States on critical global cyber issues by reaffirming our already effective collaboration on
key cyber topics and identifying additional areas for cooperation and enhancement. The meeting
represented a “whole-of-government” approach, allowing for in-depth cooperation on a wide range of
cyber issues between French and American government agency counterparts and increased
collaboration on both strategic and operational objectives.
Strategic objectives of the meeting included affirming common approaches to promoting domestic and
international cyber security; enhancing existing information sharing; countering use of the Internet for
terrorist purposes, including radicalization and recruiting to violence online; promoting the Council of
Europe Convention of Cybercrime (Budapest Convention); and pursuing cyber capacity building efforts in
third countries.
The meeting included discussions of international security in cyberspace focused on the current round of
the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and
Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (GGE) as well as in regional security bodies,
like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Both hope to find ways jointly to help make
previous GGE reports’ recommendations more universally adopted. They intend to continue their close
cooperation on these issues in bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora.
During the meetings, the representatives of the United States and France presented the roles and
responsibilities of their respective government agencies. The U.S. delegation explained its Cybersecurity
National Action Plan and U.S. cyber interagency coordination policies and processes. The French
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