Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 22/ Trend E.Ostapenko/
President of Kazakh stan Nursultan Nazarbayev called on United Nations countries to work out an international legal framework for the global information space, UN press-service reported.
"A global pact on information and cybersecurity is vital to deter the increasingly frequent attacks by hackers against governments, businesses and other institutions", Nazarbayev told the General Assembly's annual general debate on Wednesday.
66th session of UN General Assembly opened at its headquarters in New-York on 21, September.
Speaking about cybersecurity, Nazarbayev said it was worrying that "not a single international convention or multilateral treaty governs information processes".
"Is it not the reason why, in practical terms, most hacker attacks on banks, businesses, government institutions, the military and even nuclear facilities have been carried out with impunity?" he asked.
Nazarbayev said that legal framework in this field could be based on the nine elements of a global culture of cybersecurity, which the General Assembly adopted in 2002.
In his speech the Kazakh President also underlined the importance of greater dialogue between the Islamic world and the West, in a bid to counter Islamophobia and promote harmony between peoples of different religions and ethnicities.