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Stressing the need for enhanced efforts to close the digital divide by
capacity building for developing countries and exchanging best practices and
training in the sphere of security in the use of ICTs,
Consistent with the ARF Statement on Cooperation in Fighting Cyber
Attacks and Terrorist Misuse of Cyberspace of July 28, 2006,
Noting the United Nations Consensus Report of the Group of Governmental
Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in
the Context of International Security (A/65/201),
ARF participants reiterate the need to further intensify regional
cooperation on security in the use of ICTs, including through the following
measures:
- promote further consideration of strategies to address threats emerging in
this field consistent with international law and its basic principles;
-promote dialogue on confidence-building, stability, and risk reduction
measures to address the implications of ARF participants' use of ICTs, including
exchange of views on the potential use of ICTs in conflict;
- encourage and enhance cooperation in bringing about culture of cyber
security;
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develop an ARF work plan on security in the use of ICTs, focused on
practical cooperation on confidence building measures, which could set out
corresponding goals and a timeframe for their implementation;
- review a possibility to elaborate common terms and definitions
relevant to the sphere of the use of ICTs.