Estonia proposes to discuss cyber security at OSCE assembly 
21.02.2008
TALLINN, Feb 21, BNS - The Estonian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has distributed a formal proposal to put the topic of cyber security on the agenda of this year's session of the assembly.
"We have begun drafting a respective resolution and mustering support for it among assembly member delegations," the head of the Estonian group, Paul-Eerik Rummo, said. The OSCE cannot avoid dealing with cyber attacks as a growing threat to global security, he said.
In Rummo's words, only 22 countries have to date joined the only binding international agreement on this issue, the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime.
"As the convention is open also to countries not belonging to the Council of Europe, the first step the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly should take is to invite all countries to accede to it," Rummo said in a statement on behalf of the Estonian delegation.
The annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be held in the Kazakh capital Astana from June 29 to July 3.
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