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The proceedings on the first day of the United Nations






The UN general assembly started with the roll call with the Delegate of Japan being absent. Following the Chair’s speech, the motion to ‘Defining cyber-warfare’ was put forward and it passed with more than fifty percent of the votes. There were many definitions as to what cyber-terrorism and cyber-warfare could be, with one such definition being, that Cyber-terrorism is a form of terrorism in which a computer is used as a tool to attack other computers through the internet and not being physically present. This may occur due to political or personnel grudges. The general speakers list which is a time in which a few delegates were given time to address the assembly on the stance taken by their country and the problems faced by the country regarding the topic ‘Cyber-Terrorism and Cyber-Warfare’. Many motions were put forward but most of them were rejected.  The next motion to be passed was to ‘methods to prevent cyber-terrorism’. Many suggestions were made with one being put forward by the delegate of South Africa, he said, “one way to reduce the frequency of cyber-attacks is to coordinate between the public and the present party forming the government”. The many delegates that were present either agreed or disagreed to the point. There was a small break following this. After this, the general assembly returned to the general speakers list and the session continued. The delegate of USA pointed out many flaws with the status on cyber-security giving the assembly lot of information on the topic ‘defending the country on the front of cyber-war’. The delegate of Syria put forward the motion to help understand how cyber-attacks are caused. The delegate of Malaysia said that the main cause for cyber-attacks was negligence. According to the delegate of China, Apple has refused to help the FBI in preventing hacking on computers throughout the world. Then the delegate of Vietnam stated that Hacking is a case of personal and political intervening. This has led to the understanding that hacking is a tool to instill war among countries that are already on tight ends. After this the delegate of Nigeria justly defined cyber-crime as a politically motivated attack meant to intimidate people into doing what the hacker wishes.

the delegates voting during the assembly







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