On April 17, on the margins of the 10th Meeting of the BRICS Working Group on Security in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin met with Director General of the Information Network Security Administration of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Tigist Hamid.
The Russian side welcomed the accession of FDRE to BRICS and expressed readiness to strengthen dialog and coordination with Ethiopian partners within the framework of the association. There was an interesting exchange of views on the international information security (IIS) agenda. The parties confirmed the closeness of the respective approaches of our countries at the UN system platforms – in the Open-ended Working Group on ISIS and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Development of a Comprehensive Convention on Combating the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes.
Particular attention was paid to the joint search for solutions to the digital divide between developed and developing countries through building ICT potential and cooperation in the International Telecommunication Union. Prospects for cooperation in line with the provisions of the bilateral intergovernmental agreement on the IIB and on issues of response to computer attacks were discussed.
