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22.
The importance of promoting cooperation among the public and private sectors, academia, the
technical community, civil society, and other social actors to strengthen the safekeeping and
protection of that critical information and communications infrastructure;
23.
To explore future opportunities for expanding CICTE’s efforts at building the capacity of
member statesto protect information and communications infrastructure systems, including the
implementation of capacity-building programs to strengthen the security of global supply
chains;
24.
To urge member states to make voluntary contributions to strengthen CICTE’s ability to assist
the member states, when they so request, in implementing the 2004 Strategy and its Appendix
A, approved declarations and the Work Planand this Declaration;
25.
To invite the member states, permanent observers, and pertinent international organizations
provide, maintain, or increase, as appropriate, their voluntary financial or human resource
contributions to CICTE, to facilitate the performance of its duties and promote the enhancement
of its programs and the scope of its work;
26.
Their interest in creating a voluntary contribution fund, through which the member states,
permanent observers, and pertinent international organizations would be able to make voluntary
financial contributions to increase cybersecurity in the Americas, and to instruct the CICTE
Secretariat to submit a draft of its operating rules to the Committee on Hemispheric Security;
27.
Their request that the OAS General Assembly instruct the General Secretariat, within the
resources allocated in the program-budget of the OAS, to provide the CICTE Secretariat with
the human and financial resources necessary to implement the CICTE Work Plan, including the
areas dealing with Border Controls, Legislative Assistance and Combating Terrorism
Financing, Protection of Critical Infrastructure, Strengthening Strategies on Emerging Terrorist
Threats, and International Coordination and Cooperation;
28.
To instruct the CICTE Secretariat, within its competencies, support the member statesthat so
request itwith their commitment and efforts in complying with and implementing this
declaration and the CICTE Work Plan;
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