CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SECURITY ... 4 of 7 http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/official_documents/-/asset_publish... space according to its national laws. Its sovereignty and laws apply to the information infrastructure located in the territory of the State Party or otherwise falling under its jurisdiction. The States Parties must strive to harmonize national legislation, the differences whereof must not create barriers on the road to a reliable and secure information space; 6) each State Party must observe the principle of responsibility for its own information space, including responsibility for its security and the nature of information it holds; 7) each State Party has the right to develop its information space without external interference and each other State must respect that right in accordance with the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations; 8) each State Party, with consideration for the lawful interests in security of other States, may freely and independently determine its interests in the support of information security, on the basis of sovereign equality, as well as freely choose the methods by which it will ensure its own information security in accordance with international law; 9) the States Parties acknowledge that aggressive "information warfare" is a crime against international peace and security; 10) the information space of States Parties should not be the object of acquisition for other States as a result of threats of force or the use of force; 11) each State Party has the inalienable right to self-defense against aggressive actions against it in the information space, if the source of aggression can be reliably located and the retaliatory measures are appropriate; 12) each State Party will determine its military potential in the information space on the basis of national procedures, with consideration for the lawful interests in security of other States, as well as the necessity of working to strengthen international peace and security. No State Party will make an attempt to achieve dominance in the information space over other States; 13) a State Party may locate its forces and means of ensuring information security on the territory of another State in accordance with an agreement, developed by both parties on a voluntary basis through negotiations, and in accordance with international law; 14) each State Party will take the measures necessary to ensure that the activity of international information systems for the management of the flow of transport and finance, means of communication, means of international information exchange, including the exchange of information for scientific and educational purposes, continues without interference, based on the understanding that such interference could negatively affect the information space as a whole; 15) States Parties should support and stimulate scientific and technical developments connected with the exploration of the information space, as well as educational activity, aimed at forming a global culture of cybersecurity; 16) each State Party will, within the limits of its means, ensure that fundamental human rights and freedoms, and the rights and freedoms of citizens, and intellectual property laws, including patents, technologies, commercial secrets, brands, and copyrights, are adhered to in its information space; 17) each State Party guarantees freedom of speech and expression in its information space, as well as protection against illegal interference into the private lives of citizens; 18) each State Party aims to maintain a balance between fundamental human rights and the effective counteraction of terrorist use of the information space; 19) States Parties do not have the right to limit or interrupt the access of citizens to the information space, except when acting to protect national and social security, or when preventing the illegal use of an unsanctioned interference into their national information infrastructure; 20) States Parties stimulate the partnership between business and civil society in the information space; 21) States Parties acknowledge their responsibility to ensure that citizens, public and state bodies, other States, and the global community are informed about new threats to the information space and about known methods of increasing the level of their security. Chapter 2. MAIN MEASURES FOR AVERTING AND RESOLVING MILITARY CONFLICT IN THE INFORMATION SPACE Article 6. Main Measures for Averting Military Conflict in the Information space Guided by the principles laid out in Article 5, the States Parties shall take steps to anticipate and expose potential conflicts in the information space and take joint action to avert them and resolve crises and disputes peacefully. To this end, the States Parties shall: 1) cooperate to ensure international information security to maintain world peace and security and to contribute to global economic stability and progress, general welfare of the peoples of the world and discrimination-free international cooperation; 2) take all necessary steps to prevent any destructive information action originating from their own territory or using the information infrastructure under their jurisdiction, as well as cooperate to locate the source of computer attacks carried out with the use of their territory, to repel these attacks and to eliminate their consequences; 3) refrain from developing and adopting plans or doctrines capable of increasing threats in the information space, straining relations between States or provoking "information wars"; 4) refrain from any actions aimed at a complete or partial breach of the integrity of the information space of another State; 5) refrain from using information and communication technology to interfere with the internal affairs of another State; 6) refrain, in international relations, from threatening to use or using force against the information space of any other State with the purpose of breaching it or as a means of resolving conflict; 7) refrain from organizing or encouraging the organization of any irregular forces with the purpose of carrying out unlawful activities in the information space of another State; 8) refrain from slander as well as from using insulting or hostile propaganda to intervene into or interfere in the internal affairs of other States; 9) have the right and duty to take action against the proliferation of untruthful or distorted messages which could be considered as a means of interfering in the internal affairs of other States or as damaging world peace and security; 7/19/2017 4:45 PM