In the mid-1990s, the Kremlin approached the White House with a proposal for an international information security treaty. Although the US government rejected the proposal, this has not kept the Russian government from pursuing and promoting the idea globally. Moscow put the implications of information and communications technologies for international peace and security on the agenda of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee in the late 1990s and worked with the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to further advance its proposal for such a treaty. Together with China,
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