F. Capacity building 13. Denmark support the way discussions on capacity building are reflected in the “pre-draft” report. Supporting developing countries will be crucial in strengthening the global resilience against malicious ICT activity. 14, We would welcome discussions on the form of a facilitation mechanism. Apart from the financial aspects, this should include how to ensure enhanced coordination with ongoing initiatives. Moreover, it should focus on ensuring UN facilitated capacity building are structured to preserve and promote an open, secure, stable, accessible and peaceful ICT environment as well as human rights and democracy. G. Regular Institutional Dialogue 15. Denmark welcomes the attempts to reflect the array of opinions and suggestions regarding regular institutional dialogue at the substantive sessions. We recommend emphasizing that no consensus was achieved on purpose, scope, financing etc. and that this will require further discussions unlikely to finish before July 2020. As such, we find the current OEWG premature for specific recommendations regarding regular institutional dialogue. H. Conclusions and Recommendations 16. Denmark welcomes recommendations enabling practical implementation of the 11 non-binding norms of responsible state behavior and CBMs. 17. As stated above Denmark is uncertain that the involvement of the ILC at this time would be of benefit to the process. 18. While supporting the recommendations on repositories we recommend the establishment of one general repository to avoid duplication of efforts and streamline information gathering. The Government of Denmark is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the “pre-draft” of the OEWG report. Denmark commends the Chair and the UNODA team for the very constructive efforts in managing the OEWG process, and we look forward to continue the discussions.

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