BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 30. The Kurultai of
Kazakhstan ratified the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime during a
meeting, the Kurultai’s press service reported.
“The document is aimed at countering crimes related to
violations of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of
computer systems, networks and data, as well as their unlawful
use,” the press service said.
The Convention, concluded in Budapest on November 23, 2001, is
the first international treaty aimed at combating information
technology-related crimes. More than 80 countries are currently
parties to the Convention, including the United States, Canada,
Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and European countries.
“Joining the Convention will enable Kazakhstan to cooperate with
these countries in effectively detecting and investigating such
criminal offenses, prosecuting them at the domestic and
international levels, and developing prompt and reliable
international cooperation”, Kurultai said.
The document provides for mechanisms of international legal
assistance, including extradition, information exchange and joint
investigative activities.
This will expand Kazakhstan’s tools for detecting cross-border
crimes and increase the effectiveness of efforts to combat
cybercrime.
In addition, the Kurultai adopted in two readings a law
ratifying the intergovernmental Kazakhstan-Qatar Agreement on
cooperation in combating crime, concluded in Doha on October 29,
2024.
The agreement regulates cooperation between Kazakhstan and Qatar
in combating organized crime, terrorist and extremist crimes,
illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and
their precursors, illegal migration and human trafficking, as well
as crimes in the field of information security.
The Kurultai also adopted in two readings a law ratifying the
Protocol on Amendments to the Treaty of the Commonwealth of
Independent States member states on interstate wanted persons
search of December 10, 2010. The protocol was signed by the parties
in Moscow on October 8, 2024.
Also, Kazakhstan’s Kurultai has approved in the second reading a
bill paving the way for the country to join the World Trade
Organization’s (WTO) rules on domestic regulation of services.
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