A/74/120 Argentina participated in the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security in 2013 and 2014, and seeks to contribute to the discussions in the General Assembly on this topic. Aware of the vital need for capacity-building, Argentina is a member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and along with the OAS, Chile, Mexico, Estonia and Spain, it participates in the OAS Cybersecurity Initiative. In November 2018 Argentina acceded to the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. At the regional level, Argentina participates in the meetings of the Working Group on Cooperation and Confidence-Building Measures in Cyberspace of the OAS Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, and has contributed to the activities of the Observatory for Cybersecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing information for the second edition of the joint OAS-Inter-American Development Bank study entitled Cybersecurity: Are We Ready in Latin America and the Caribbean?. Argentina hosted the second International Forum on Gender and Cybersecurity, co-organized with the OAS, on 29 and 30 May 2018. Within the context of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), Argentina has promoted the creation of the MERCOSUR Digital Agenda, which also addresses cybersecurity. At the bilateral level, in 2017 Argentina signed an inter-agency memorandum of understanding on cybersecurity with Spain. The same year, it agreed with the United States to form the intergovernmental, bilateral Cyber Policy Working Group to focusing on cybersecurity issues, and in 2018 Argentina signed an agreement on cooperation in cybersecurity, cybercrime and cyberdefence with Chile. Argentina considers it important to maintain open channels of dialogue on cybersecurity with all countries and regions. Comments regarding the content of the reports of the Group of Governmental Experts, General Assembly resolution 73/27 and possible measures that could be taken by the international community to strengthen information security at the global level. Argentina supports and agrees with the content of the concepts mentioned in the reports of the Group of Governmental Experts. It is the responsibility of States to ensure that cyberspace is peaceful and secure; this makes it critical that they behave responsibly, through the application of existin g international law and the development of new voluntary standards, international cooperation and confidence-building measures, in accordance with United Nations General Assembly resolutions 69/28, 70/237, 71/28, 73/187, 73/266 devoted to that issue. Bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation is critical for building the capacity of the States that need to strengthen their prevention, detection, alert and response systems for threats in cyberspace. Effectively combating cybercrime is essential to ensuring that cyberspace is peaceful and secure, and therefore it is a matter of the highest priority to be addressed by inter-State cooperation. Argentina agrees with the importance of General Assembly resolution 72/27, in particular the set of international rules, norms and principles of responsible behaviour 19-10580 5/39