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the issue of cybercrime, confirming the central role of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime in that area.
The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace 6, submitted by the President
of France at the Internet Governance Forum held at the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization on 12 November 2018, testifies to the country ’s
active role in the promotion of a secure, stable and open cyberspace. This text, today
supported by 66 countries and nearly 500 non-State entities, aims to promote certain
fundamental principles for the regulation of the digital space, including the
application of international law and human rights law in cyberspace, the responsible
behaviour of States, the monopoly on legitimate violence by States and recognition
of the specific responsibilities of private actors.
France has also been involved from within the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). It organized the first meeting of the OECD
Global Forum on Digital Security for Prosperity in December 2018, on the theme of
the responsibility of private sector actors for digital security.
The Group of 7 (G7) Ise-Shima Cyber Group, created in 2016, led to the
adoption of an ambitious declaration in 2017 known as the Lucca Declaratio n ,
concerning standards for responsible behaviour in cyberspace. During its presidency
in March 2019, France proposed the launching of a follow-up mechanism for the
implementation of approved standards and recommendations at the United Nations
level, affirmed through the Dinard Declaration on the cybernorm initiative.7
France is working to ensure that the work of the Group of 20 (G20) addresses
the fundamental issues of competition in the digital economy, new methods of
regulation, governance and digital security, in line with the Paris Call for Trust and
Security in Cyberspace.
As an active participant in the informal working group on cybersecurity of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), France continues to
promote the implementation of the 16 confidence-building measures developed by
the OSCE on cyberissues. This includes piloting of the implementation of the
confidence-building measure on the protection of critical infrastructure.
In order to strengthen the fight against the proliferation of malicious tools and
techniques, France has supported the inclusion of intrusion software on the list of
dual-use goods of the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional
Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies. France believes that regulatory efforts
must be pursued in this way by including certain cybertools on the list of war materiel,
determined in accordance with the gravity of their effects.
France believes that many of the challenges related to cybersecurity should be
addressed through a multi-actor or multi-stakeholder approach, in order to taken into
account the role and the specific responsibilities of non -State actors. In that regard,
France supports the work of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
The Commission develops proposals for standards and policies that aim to strengthen
international security and stability and to guide responsible State behaviour in
cyberspace.
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Available at www.diplomatie. gouv.fr/IM G/p df/g7_-_declaration_de_ dinar d_sur_l_initative_
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