Countering the use of information and communications
technologies for criminal purposes
A/RES/74/247
Recalling Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution
22/8 of 26 April 2013, 1 in which the Commission welcomed the efforts of the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in fulfilling its mandate to provide technical
assistance and capacity-building on cybercrime,
Noting the work carried out by the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice under the auspices of an open-ended intergovernmental expert group
which was established to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of
cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and
the private sector,
Recalling its resolution 65/230 of 21 December 2010, in which the General
Assembly endorsed the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Str ategies for Global
Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development
in a Changing World,
Recalling also the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Addres s Social and
Economic Challenges and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International
Levels, and Public Participation, 2 adopted at the Thirteenth United Nations Congress
on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Doha from 12 to 19 Apri l 2015,
Noting the discussions held during the first to fifth meetings of the open -ended
intergovernmental expert group, held in Vienna from 17 to 21 January 2011, 25 to
28 February 2013, 10 to 13 April 2017, 3 to 5 April 2018 and 27 to 29 March 2019,
reaffirming the importance of the study and the need to further enhance international
discussion on and cooperation against cybercrime,
Noting also the importance of the international and regional instruments in the
fight against cybercrime and the ongoing efforts to examine options to strengthen
existing and propose new national and international legal or other responses to the
use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,
Recalling its resolutions 53/70 of 4 December 1998, 54/49 of 1 December 1999,
55/28 of 20 November 2000, 56/19 of 29 November 2001, 57/53 of 22 November
2002, 58/32 of 8 December 2003, 59/61 of 3 December 2004, 60/45 of 8 December
2005, 61/54 of 6 December 2006, 62/17 of 5 December 2007, 63/37 of 2 December
2008, 64/25 of 2 December 2009, 65/41 of 8 December 2010, 66/24 of 2 December
2011, 66/181 of 19 December 2011, 67/27 of 3 December 2012, 68/193 of
18 December 2013, 68/243 of 27 December 2013, 69/28 of 2 December 2014, 70/237
of 23 December 2015, 71/28 of 5 December 2016, 72/196 of 19 December 2017,
73/27 of 5 December 2018 and 73/187 of 17 December 2018,
Recalling also the reports of the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments
in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International
Security, 3 which is of the view that States should consider how best to cooperate to
prosecute the criminal use of information and communications technologies,
Taking note of Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolution
26/4 of 26 May 2017, 4 in which the Commission expressed appreciation for the work
done by the Expert Group to Conduct a Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime and
requested the Expert Group to continue its work, with a view to examining options to
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 10 and
corrigendum (E/2013/30 and E/2013/30/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
Resolution 70/174, annex.
A/65/201, A/68/98 and A/70/174.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 10 (E/2017/30),
chap. I, sect. D.
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