MOSCOW, October 23. /TASS/. Developing countries, which often become victims of illegal use of information technologies, support efforts to come up with a comprehensive international treaty on information and communication security, said Artur Lyukmanov, director of the International Information Security Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"We believe that we have good conditions to expand to the limit the scope of the future treaty," said the diplomat, who is also Russia's special presidential envoy on international cooperation in the field of information security. "First of all, of course, demand for this comes from the countries of the developing world, which often become victims of illegal use of information and communications technology. If only because these countries are consumers of ICT that are produced outside their borders, primarily in the countries of the developed world."
Speaking at the UN earlier, Lyukmanov said that Western countries do not cooperate withing that organization on the issue of countering the use of ICT for criminal purposes, which he described as a manifestation of double standards.
Ernest Chernukhin, another official at the International Information Security Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, wrote in an article for the International Affairs magazine that Russia will continue to provide technical assistance to the countries that need it for protecting their state sovereignty. He said Russia will also continue debunking any manifestations of neocolonial practices in the global information space.