Adopted at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Lucca, Italy on 11 April 2017.
In the Declaration, the G7 Foreign Ministers:
– Remain committed to promoting a strategic framework for conflict prevention, cooperation and stability in cyberspace, the promotion of voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible State behavior during peacetime, and the development and the implementation of practical cyber CBMs between States.
– Express concern about the risk of escalation and retaliation in cyberspace, stress that the risk of interstate conflict as a result of ICT incidents has emerged as a pressing issue for consideration, and express increasing concern about cyber-enabled interference in democratic political processes.
– Encourage all States to engage in law-abiding, norm-respecting and confidence-building behaviour in their use of ICT, and mention cooperative approaches as contributing to the fight against the use of cyberspace by non-State actors for terrorist and other criminal purposes.
– Continue to call upon all States to be guided in their use of ICTs by the cumulative reports of the UN-GGE.
– Provide the list of 11 voluntary, non-binding norms of State behavior during peacetime articulated in the 2015 GGE report and the 2015 G20 Leaders’ Communiqué.