Press Releases
The Inaugural ASEAN-Japan Cybercrime Dialogue
May 27, 2014
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On Wednesday, May 28, the Inaugural ASEAN-Japan Cybercrime Dialogue will be held in Singapore.
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This Dialogue will be co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Jun Shimmi, Ambassador in charge of Cyber Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan; and Mr. Benny Oon, Senior Director, International Cooperation and Partnerships Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, the Republic of Singapore. The Dialogue will be attended by officials from Japan, all the ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Secretariat.
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This Dialogue is inaugurated this year as a follow-up to the commitment made at the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit in December 2013. The Dialogue will be held to discuss ASEAN-Japan cooperation on cybercrime, such as promotion of information-sharing on trends and lessons learned to combat cybercrime, promotion of international cooperation on cybercrime, capacity building to fight against cybercrime, and the direction of concrete activities using Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF).
(* The foregoing is a provisional translation. The date indicated above denotes the date of issue of the original press release in Japanese.)