Position Paper

                                                           

                                                                                                            Delegation: Ukraine

                                                                                                            Date: 26 April, 2013

Committee                     : Special Political and Decolonization Committee

Topic                              : Cyber-security

Name of Delegate          : Yoga Lordason

Faculty/Major/Batch     : Faculty of Humanities/English Literature/2013

            Cyber-space attack which has maliciously knocked offline an ample of Ukrainian governmental and other websites is a signal warning of danger within the international affairs as it becomes increasingly probable to trigger a violent retaliation between conflicting countries for similar attack, resulting in severe disruption of peace. In latter decades, cyber-crimes have threatened the world’s peace through the wide breadth of motives of cyber-criminal perpetration which stretches from financial to political aims, incorporating banking sector, educational sector, health sector, and to a wide extent, governmental sector. To make it worse, these cyber-crimes are not only carried out by individuals. Rather, a large number of cases where governmental groups carry out a variety of cyber-crime practices have broaden out over time, indicating that cyber-crime puts the world at danger of being unrest. An attack on one country should not be treated merely as a two-country conflict, yet it should be seen within the context of international security, supposedly because it may raise tensions among partner-countries of conflicting countries. From that viewpoint, hence, Ukraine believes that the Special Political and Decolonization must provide adequate preventions and protections against threats of any forms of cyber-crime in the endeavor to obtain peace among world-wide nations. In particular, to provide the adequate protections and preventions from disruption of peace caused by cyber-crimes, a common understanding of the danger of cyber-crimes among countries should be facilitated by the Special Political and Decolonization committee.

As a country that has been mounted under cyber-attacks, Ukraine thinks that whether the cyber-attacks have been done by governmental groups or individuals, by any reasons, the attacks under cyber-crime violate the international law and the sovereignty of a country. Furthermore, the impacts that it has on the country is massive. The cyber-attack to Ukraine has immensely crippled the banks, industrial sites, media, and it has defaced networks run by the Kiev government and other important organizations (dailystar.co.uk). Therefore, in whatever way, Ukraine expresses a complete disapprobation upon any forms of cyber-attack.

Ukraine believes that deterrence against cyber-attacks may not sufficiently be achieved through regional and bilateral agreements on cyber-security only, basically because the opportunities have been created for criminals to perpetrate cyber-attacks from amazingly remote area. Therefore, Ukraine suggests that the Special Political and Decolonization must withstand as an intermediate agency to bring all countries into an agreement on cyber-security. This assumption originates in a belief that engaging all countries in this agreement will definitely decrease the number of cyber-attacks in the future. Then penalties for cyber-crime perpetrators who perpetrate a certain degree of cyber-crime should be enacted and enforced so that the attempt towards cyber-security could be realized.