A/65/154 endorsed the 1990 ruling of the former International Frequency Registration Board that television broadcasts from an aerostat with programming directed to Cuban national territory were in violation of the regulations. 13. The hostility of the Government of the United States of America towards Cuba has been manifested through the economic, financial and trade embargo imposed for almost 50 years, which also affects information and telecommunications. – Cuba is not able to access the services provided by many websites; when it is recognized that the link is being established from an Internet address with the Cuban domain name .cu, access is denied. – Without prior notification, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blocked .com domains related to Cuba. – Because of the laws on the economic, trade and financial embargo imposed by the Government of the United States of America, Cuba is unable to connect to the fibre-optic cables that surround the Cuban archipelago, forcing the country to pay for satellite services involving bandwidth restrictions, serious problems acquiring the necessary technologies and high connection costs. – The Internet is being used to conduct defamatory campaigns against Cuba for subversive purposes and in order to discredit the country. 14. This attitude erodes the spirit, the intentions and the conclusions that prevailed among the nations of the entire world when they met in Switzerland and Tunisia during the World Summit on the Information Society, in 2003 and 2005. 15. The Summit strongly urged States, in building the information society, to take steps with a view to the avoidance of, and refrain from, any unilateral measure not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that impedes the full achievement of economic and social development by the population of the affected countries and that hinders the well-being of their population. 16. The discussion in the United Nations General Assembly about developments in information and telecommunications in the context of international security is very relevant and becoming ever more timely and important. Actions by the United States against Cuba such as those described above confirm the need for this debate and the urgency of finding ways to end such manifestations. 17. Cuba strongly supports this exercise by the General Assembly and will continue to spare no effort to contribute to the peaceful global development of information and telecommunication technologies and their use for the good of all humanity. It is also ready to collaborate with other countries, including the United States of America, to find solutions that will overcome the obstacles preventing the achievement of these goals. Greece [Original: English] [28 June 2010] 1. Information security issues have been more extensively addressed than in the past. Counter-measures to the modern threats that are inherent to the advent of the globalization of networks and systems are certainly considered. Measures to 10-45842 5