The text of the speech by Jalalzadeh is as follows:
On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I express my most sincere gratitude to the Government and people of Vietnam for their warm and dignified hospitality and excellent organization of the historic signing ceremony of the Hanoi Convention.
I also thank the United Nations Secretariat for its valuable support in facilitating this process.
The rapid advances and expansion of information and communication technologies have provided significant opportunities for the development of societies and innovation, but have also created new opportunities to facilitate the commission of cybercrimes, crimes that allow perpetrators to act quickly and without being brought to justice.
These crimes threaten national sovereignty, security, economies, urban infrastructure and the privacy of individuals around the world.
Therefore, effective international cooperation among United Nations Member States is essential.
The Convention on Cybercrime is an important step towards establishing a global framework for combating cybercrime and strengthening international cooperation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran played an active role in the negotiations to draft the Convention, with the aim of providing a strong and effective legal framework for the international community to combat crimes based on information and communication technologies, punish criminals, and protect children and public morality against the growing abuse of these technologies.
The Convention on Combating Cybercrime is an important step towards multilateralism and international cooperation to combat the criminal use of information and communication technologies.
Although the member states at the last meeting of the Special Committee for Drafting the Convention showed through their votes on the Islamic Republic's proposed amendments that there are still different views on some of the provisions of the Convention, the ratification of this document is nevertheless a very useful step towards collectively combating various forms of cybercrime through international cooperation.
The effective implementation of the Convention's objectives, which include facilitating and strengthening international cooperation in preventing and combating cybercrime, requires serious attention to the challenges and obstacles that limit international cooperation and the ability of countries to combat these crimes; the adoption and application of unilateral coercive measures continue to hinder international cooperation, including in the field of combating crime.
These illegal actions are a clear violation of fundamental principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
Therefore, these obstacles must be addressed and removed in order to effectively achieve the important objectives of the Convention.
Provision of technical assistance and capacity-building to developing countries should be based on their needs and priorities in combating the criminal use of information and communication technologies.
IRNA