A/77/92 Asian Nations (ASEAN) has subscribed in principle to the 11 voluntary, non-binding norms on responsible State behaviour in the use of ICTs and to date remains the only regional organization to have adopted these norms. At the sixth ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity, held in 2021, participants discussed the progress of the ASEAN long-term regional action plan on the implementation of norms of responsible State behaviour in cyberspace, which seeks to ensure effective and practical implementation of these norms, including in the areas of cooperation among computer emergency response teams, protection of critical information infrastructure and mutual assistance in cybersecurity. The regional action plan was endorsed at the second ASEAN Cybersecurity Coordinating Committee in November 2021 and remains a living document for further review. The ASEAN cybersecurity cooperation strategy for the period 2021–2025 updated the ASEAN strategy for cybersecurity cooperation to create a safer and more secure cyberspace in the ASEAN region. ASEAN has agreed to establish a regional computer emergency response team, which will contain the ASEAN computer emergency response team information exchange mechanism, to strengthen the Association’s response to cybersecurity incidents. Through the ASEAN Regional Forum points of contact directory on security of and in the use of ICTs, members of the Forum are able to contact their counterparts in the event of a cyberincident. Capacity-building Singapore believes that capacity-building is an essential pillar of the agreed normative framework, insofar as it is important to ensure that all States have the capacity to implement the normative framework and their obligations under international law. In line with this, Singapore is committed to sharing our exp erience and expertise with fellow States Members of the United Nations, especially small developing countries, at the regional and global level. To support capacity-building at the regional (ASEAN) level, Singapore established the ASEAN Cyber Capacity Programme in 2016 to support capacitybuilding in ASEAN countries on cyberpolicy, as well as operational and technical issues. Following positive feedback from international partners and participants on the Programme, Singapore announced the establishment of the ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence in October 2019, with a commitment of $30 million over five years until 2023, to carry out cybersecurity training programmes for senior ASEAN policy and technical officials. The Centre’s campus was off icially opened in October 2021 during Singapore International Cyber Week. To date, the Centre has delivered more than 30 programmes attended by over 1,250 senior officials from ASEAN and beyond, and has collaborated with over 40 partners across Governments, the private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations. Despite travel restrictions arising from the coronavirus disease (COVID -19) pandemic, the Centre continued to conduct training programmes online and has organized 21 virtual capacity-building programmes since May 2020. At the global level, Singapore is working in partnership with the Office for Disarmament Affairs on the following initiatives: (a) Under the United Nations-Singapore Cyber Programme, Singapore is developing a norms implementation checklist through a series of workshops across various regions, in partnership with the Office for Disarmament Affairs. The checklist will take the form of a guide setting out a set of actions that developing countries can take towards implementing the 11 voluntary, non-binding norms on responsible State behaviour. Singapore held the first workshop on norms implementation to develop the checklist with States members of ASEAN in March 2022, which focused on implementing norms on critical infrastructure protection, vulnerability reporting and 18/34 22-08761

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