A/72/315 Armenia has approved and applied a set of ISO standards related to infor mation security. In October 2006, the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime was ratified and appropriate amendments to the national legislation followed. Armenia actively engages in relevant programmes, training courses and cooperative initiatives carried out within different international frameworks, such as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In particular, in 2016 the two-stage “Cyber-antiterror” joint exercise of member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held. A draft “Agreement on cooperation among CSTO member States in the field of ensuring information security” was proposed for domestic interdepartmental approval ear lier in 2017. The content of the concepts mentioned in paragraph 2 The Republic of Armenia information security concept defines the term “information security” as “the protection of national interests in the information sphere, which is linked to the entirety of the balanced interests of individuals, society and the State”. Taking into account the rapid development of information and communications technology, an inter-agency working group has been established to draft a renewed concept on ensuring information security and information policy in the Republic of Armenia in late 2017. Possible measures that could be taken by the international community to strengthen information security at the global level Armenia underlines the importance of enhanced and effective international cooperation on information security issues, emphasizing the role of the International Telecommunication Union. Belarus [Original: Russian] [5 June 2017] General appreciation of the issues of information security The current state of international information security is unsatisfactory. There are attempts being made to use information technology for political purposes. Belarus has a number of distinctive information security issues: (a) Insufficient protection of the national segment from exposure to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) at the level of backbone providers and domestic providers, and even hosting platforms; (b) The potential for undeclared capabilities and vulnerabilities to appear in information security products and a lack of capacity for detecting them in a timely fashion, which often undermines the impact of measures to protect information; (c) The threat of intruders attacking critical infrastructure and information technology infrastructure, such as power supply systems and automated systems for managing production and transport. 17-13876 5/25