📖Article "The First Global Treaty against Cybercrime: from Geopolitical Confrontation towards Professional Compromise" by Pyotr Litvishko

In August 2024, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes approved the draft UN Convention against Cybercrime and submitted it to the General Assembly for adoption.

The treaty has been drafted over four years, with Ad Hoc Committee sessions and inter-sessional consultations held at UN headquarters in New York and Vienna. The negotiation process for the Convention, initiated by our country, was all along burdened by the extremely unfavourable geopolitical context of peaking international tension. Against all odds, however, a quality and practically relevant text has been produced.

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