CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SECURITY ... 5 of 7 http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/official_documents/-/asset_publish... 10) take action aimed at limiting the proliferation of "information weapons" and the technology for their creation. Article 7. Measures for Resolving Military Conflict in the Information Space 1) The States Parties shall resolve conflicts in the information space primarily by means of negotiation, investigation, mediation, reconciliation, arbitration, court trial, appeal to regional bodies or agreements, or by other peaceful means of their choice so as not to endanger world peace and security. 2) In any international conflict, the right of the States Parties that are involved in the conflict to choose the means of "information warfare" is limited by applicable norms of international humanitarian law. Chapter 3. MAIN MEASURES FOR PREVENTING THE USE OF THE INFORMATION SPACE FOR TERRORIST PURPOSES Article 8. The Use of the Information space for Terrorist Purposes The States Parties acknowledge the possibility of the information space being used for carrying out terrorist activities. Article 9. Main Measures for Preventing the Use of the Information space for Terrorist Purposes To prevent the use of the information space for terrorist purposes, the States Parties shall: 1) take action to prevent the use of the information space for terrorist purposes and acknowledge the necessity of decisive joint efforts to this end; 2) strive to work out uniform approaches to disabling Internet resources of a terrorist nature; 3) acknowledge the need for establishing and expanding the exchange of information on possible computer attacks, on the signs, facts, methods, and means of using the Internet for terrorist purposes, and on the goals and activities of terrorist organizations in the information space, as well as the need for the exchange of experience and best practices on monitoring Internet resources, finding and monitoring the content of websites of a terrorist nature, carrying out criminal investigations by computer experts in this sphere, and legal regulation and the organization of activities for preventing the use of the information space for terrorist purposes; 4) take such steps of legislative or other nature as may be necessary to allow law enforcement authorities to carry out investigative and other relevant activities aimed at preventing and suppressing terrorist activities in the information space and at the elimination of the consequences thereof, as well as at punishing persons and organizations guilty of conducting them; 5) take necessary steps of legislative or other nature which will guarantee lawful access to specific parts of the information and communication infrastructure in the territory of the State Party, which are legally implicated in being employed for the perpetration of terrorist activities in the information space or involved in such activities elsewhere, for the perpetration of activities conducive to terrorist acts, or for the activities of terrorist organizations or groups, or individual terrorists. Chapter 4. MAIN MEASURES FOR COUNTERACTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IN THE INFORMATION SPACE Article 10. Main Measures for Counteracting Illegal Activity in the Information space To counteract illegal activity in the information space, the States Parties shall: 1) strive to criminalize the use of information resources and/or the manipulation of them in the information space for unlawful purposes, which include the unauthorized dissemination of information, breaches of confidentiality, and damaging the integrity or accessibility of information, and also take legislative or other steps to stipulate the responsibility and hold responsible persons for perpetrating, attempting, being accomplices in or instigating criminalized and socially dangerous actions in the information space; 2) take legislative or other steps to ensure that offenders in the information space receive effective, proportional, and convincing punishment. Article 11. Measures on Organizing Criminal Procedures To organize criminal procedures, the States Parties shall: 1) take legislative or other steps to stipulate powers and procedures for the purposes of conducting individual criminal investigations or court trials in cases of the perpetration of criminalized and socially dangerous actions in the information space; 2) ensure the stipulation, execution, and application of powers and procedures for the purposes of conducting individual criminal investigations or court trials in cases of the perpetration of criminalized and socially dangerous actions in the information space in compliance with the provisions and guarantees provided for by the legislation of the State and ensuring the appropriate level of the protection of human rights and freedoms, as well as with the principle of proportionality. 3) take legislative or other steps enabling the law enforcement authorities of the State to take swift action for the protection of certain data, including data on information flows stored in the information and communication infrastructure, when there are reasons to believe that these data are especially vulnerable to loss or manipulation; 4) take legislative or other steps to guarantee timely access of the law enforcement authorities of the State or a person appointed by these authorities to sufficient amounts of data on information flows as to identify service providers and the route of a specific message in its information space; 5) take legislative or other steps which may be necessary to empower the law enforcement authorities of the State to search or gain similar access to information and communication systems and their parts and the data stored therein, as well as to storage media which may contain the data in question, in its territory, and to other data and information and communication systems of their information space which are reasonably implicated in storing the data in question; 6) take legislative or other steps which may be necessary to empower the law enforcement authorities of the State to demand from a person present in its territory and possessing information on the functioning of the relevant information and communication system, its means of protection and the data stored therein, the release of this information, which would allow these authorities to take action, within the scope of their authority, for the 7/19/2017 4:45 PM