AUSTRALIA IS GUIDED IN ITS USE OF ICTS BY THE UNGGE REPORTS
3.1. Australia reaffirms its commitment to act in accordance with the cumulative UNGGE reports
from 2010, 2013 and 2015 (A/65/201; A/68/98; A/70/174).
3.2. Recalling that in 2015 the UNGA called on all UN Members states ‘to be guided in their use of
information and communications technologies by the [UNGGE’s] 2015 report’ (A/RES/70/237),
annexed to this paper is an overview of how Australia observes and implements the four key
pillars of the 2015 UNGGE Report.
a) Annex A - Australia’s position on the application of international law to state
conduct in cyberspace
b) Annex B – Overview of Australian implementation of norms of responsible state
behaviour in cyberspace
c) Annex C – Examples of how Australia advances international cyber stability through
Confidence-Building Measures
d) Annex D – Capacity Building and a summary of Australia’s Cyber Cooperation
Programme.
3.3. The 2015 UNGGE report articulated best practice activities, which many countries were/are
already implementing. Australia encourages all countries to conduct a stocktake of ongoing
activities that align with the 2015 UNGGE report, as well as to identify gaps and (if applicable)
capacity required to fill those gaps. Such a stocktake, combined with a gap and capsitiy
analysis, would usefully inform the work of the OEWG and UNGGE.
PROPOSED OEWG FOCUS (AND COMPLEMENTARITY WITH THE UNGGE)
4.1. The OEWG and UNGGE should build upon the effective work and consensus reports of prior
UNGGEs (as welcomed by the OEWG’s and UNGGE’s respective establishing resolutions, the
UNGA, regional fora and world leaders, para 2.2 refers).
4.2. The OEWG and UNGGE have separate mandates and should operate independently. However,
noting the short timeframes allocated to the meetings of the two groups, and their shared
objectives in advancing responsible states behaviour in cyberspace in the context of
international security, Australia encourages good faith collaboration between the UNGGE and
OEWG.
4.3. Australia has considered how best to harness the two groups’ points of difference and
composition most efficiently, while fostering independent but mutually re-enforcing and
complementary outcomes that will have immediate real world impact. Our focus is facilitating
practical action, not protracted negotiation.
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