27 Annex B Responses to the Feb. 14, 2019 Inter-American Juridical Committee Questionnaire on the Application of International Law within OAS Member States in the Cyber Context1 Question 1 Has your Government previously issued an official paper, speech, or similar statement summarizing how it understands international law applies to cyber operations? Please provide copies or links to any such statements. 1. This first question solicited existing national statements on international law and cyberspace. The idea was to make sure the Committee was aware of any prior views of Member States. It also allowed States to avoid having to respond to the questions if they had already taken relevant substantive positions. Of the nine responses, however, only the United States indicated that it had previously made statements and speeches on how international law applies to cyberspace, including 2012 and 2016 speeches by the then-Legal Advisers to the U.S. Department of State and the 2014 and 2016 U.S. Submissions to meetings of U.N. Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security.2 International Law and State Cyber Operations