A/74/120 the right to privacy, with respect to the processing of personal data, and to outline the obligations, principles and procedures that are binding upon natural or legal persons who process personal data. Turkey has taken important roles in many organizations, either by being a founding member or by contributing to cooperation efforts on cybersecurity and information security issues. Hence Turkey seeks to ensure cybersecurity by exchanging information and ideas in a large range of areas with various countries and organizations, on policymaking, capacity-building and information-sharing. Since cyberspace is a borderless field, international cooperation is a must for fighting against cyberthreats. Because of this, Turkey regularly follows and participates in international studies on cybersecurity within the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, the Organizatio n for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and other international org anizations and institutions. In addition, ensuring cybersecurity is targeted by setting up bilateral agreements with various States. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority and the Computer Emergency Response Team of Turkey have signed memorandums of understanding on cybersecurity with some States, such as Georgia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Greece. The memorandum of understanding that describes cooperation between NATO and its allies is approved by the NATO Cyber Defence Committee, which considers the views of our State, and is signed by NATO and the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Turkey. Points of contact have been established, and related work und er the scope of the memorandum of understanding is ongoing. The work of the NATO Civil Emergency Planning Committee and the Industrial Resources and Communications Services Group is followed. Moreover, Turkey has been a member of the NATO-accredited knowledge hub, think tank and training facility, the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, as a sponsoring nation, since 2015. Turkey participates in and contributes to meetings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about security and privacy and the OSCE informal working group on cybersecurity. Meetings of the Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementatio n Assistance Centre are followed, and cooperation on various issues has been developing. The strategic goal of the Centre is to enhance the development of national security strategies by encouraging regional security cooperation and effective interaction to sustainably counter emerging security challenges, such as cybersecurity and other forms of transnational threats , including terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, trafficking, organized crime, border security and management and climate change, while particular attention will be paid to all emerging security threats deriving therefrom. Turkey is involved in efforts to develop international cooperation. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Turkey is a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, the Trusted Introducer service, the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the NATO malware information sharing platfo rm and the Cybersecurity Alliance for Mutual Progress and seeks to cooperate as much as possible to enhance cybersecurity information and share expertise and threat intelligence at the international level. 38/39 19-10580

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