CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SECURITY ... 2 of 7 http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/official_documents/-/asset_publish... information, as well as the misuse of such systems, networks, and information by ensuring the punishment of such actions, detailed in this Convention, and in the granting of sufficient authority to effectively fight such offenses through the tracking, exposure, and investigation of such offenses on an internal and international level, and through the development of agreements on efficient and reliable international cooperation, keeping in mind the necessity of ensuring the appropriate balance between maintaining law and order and protecting fundamental human rights, as foreseen in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as other international human rights agreements, which assert the right of each individual to freely hold his or her own ideas, and to freely express these ideas and opinions, including the freedom to seek, receive, and distribute any kind of information or idea, regardless of national borders, keeping in mind also the right to a private life and the protection of personal data, taking into account the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour, passed by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization in 1999, welcoming recent events enabling the further growth of international understanding and collaboration in the struggle against illegal activity in the information space, including measures undertaken by the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the European Union, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization, the Organization of American States, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Group of Eight (G8), and other international organizations and forums, have agreed to the following: Chapter 1. MAIN CLAUSES Article 1. Subject and aim of the Convention The subject that this Convention seeks to regulate is the activity of governments to ensure international information security. The aim of this Convention is to act against the use of information and communication technology to violate international peace and security, as well as to set up measures ensuring that the activity of governments in the information space will: 1) further general social and economic development; 2) be carried out in such a way as to be compatible with efforts to support international peace and security; 3) correspond to generally accepted principles and norms of international law, including principles of peacefully regulating conflicts and disagreements, abstaining from the use of force, not interfering in internal issues, and respecting fundamental human rights and freedoms; 4) be compatible with the right of each individual to seek, receive, and distribute information and ideas, as is affirmed in UN documents, while keeping in mind that this right may be restricted through legislation to protect the national and social security of each State, as well as to prevent the wrongful use of and unsanctioned interference in information resources; 5) guarantee the free exchange of technology and information, while maintaining respect for the sovereignty of States and their existing political, historical, and cultural specificities. Article 2. Terms and definitions The following terms and definitions are used for this Convention: "access to information" - the possibility of receiving and using information; "information security" - a state in which personal interests, society, and the government are protected against the threat of destructive actions and other negative actions in the information space; "information warfare" - conflict between two or more States in the information space with the goal of inflicting damage to information systems, processes, and resources, as well as to critically important structures and other structures; undermining political, economic, and social systems; carrying out mass psychological campaigns against the population of a State in order to destabilize society and the government; as well as forcing a State to make decisions in the interests of their opponents; "information infrastructure" - the total complex of technical means and systems of the formation, conversion, transfer, use, and storage of information; "information system" - the total amount of information stored in a database and the technology used to support the processing of that information; "information weapon" - information technology, means, and methods intended for use in information warfare; "information space" - the sphere of activity connected with the formation, creation, conversion, transfer, use, and storage of information and which has an effect on individual and social consciousness, the information infrastructure, and information itself; "information and communication technologies" - the total amount of methods, production processes, and programming and technical elements, integrated with the goal of forming, converting, transferring, using, and storing information; "information resources" - an information infrastructure, as well as the information itself and the flow of that information; "confidentiality of information" - the mandatory requirement that a party granted access to certain information will not transfer this information to a third party without the agreement of the owner; "critically important part of the information infrastructure" - a part (element) of an information infrastructure, actions against which could have consequences directly connected to national security, including the security of individuals, society, and the government; "international information security" - a state of international relations that excludes the possibility of breaks in global stability or the creation of threats to the security of governments and the global community in the information space; "the misuses of information resources" - the use of information resources without the necessary rights, or which involves a violation of existing regulations, national legislation, or international legal norms; "unsanctioned interference in information resources" - illegal action affecting the processes of forming, processing, converting, transferring, using, and storing information; "information system operator" - an individual citizen or corporation whose runs an information system, including the processing of information contained in its database; 7/19/2017 4:45 PM