President of the TSJ participates in China in the World Forum on the Rule of Law in Internet - MPPRE

President of the TSJ participates in China in the World Forum on the Rule of Law in Internet

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Judge Maikel Moreno, spoke this Thursday at the “World Forum on the Rule of Law in Internet”, held in the People’s Republic of China, where authorities and senior judicial representatives of different nations participated at the event organized by the High Court of the Asian nation. In the activity, carried out in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, Judge Maikel Moreno was accompanied by the president of the Civil Cassation Chamber, Judge Yván Darío Bastardo Flores.
Presidente del TSJ inicia visita oficial a China para afianzar lazos de cooperación judicial
In his presentation, entitled “The Rule of Law in Cyberspace”, the president of the Venezuelan highest court said that the phenomenon of globalization has brought about the implementation of new information technologies, “although they are aimed at expanding our own horizons, by improving the capacity for interrelation and interconnection of people around the world, they represent new challenges to legal institutions”. He added that this virtual geography created by computers and networks, while boosting communication and commercial interconnection, “also offers a means for people without faces or scruples to freely engage in illegal activities against individuals and our own states”. He also said that “our States have the obligation to agree on adequate, innovative and effective mechanisms that allow the prevention, investigation and prosecution of those responsible for illegal acts in cyberspace, as well as the timely reparation of the victims of these illegal behaviors”. He pointed out that in order to overcome these challenges, the creation of a common law and a global jurisdiction for Internet matters must be supported, constituted by an open, impartial, efficient and reliable judicial system, whose purpose is to resolve disputes that may result from relations generated by electronic commerce, and whose decisions are binding on all States.

Wuzhen statement

Within the framework of the activity, the President of the TSJ, together with the participating authorities and judicial representatives, signed the “Wuzhen Declaration of the World Forum on the Rule of Law in internet”, which highlights the importance of making a joint response to the challenges in the Internet era, through the promotion for the formation of a legal system of global reach in that field. It also highlights the statement, among other aspects, that in order to face the challenges of cybersecurity, all types of cybercrimes must be severely punished in accordance with the law, so it is necessary to promote the establishment of a mechanism for prevention and punishment of transnational collaboration, and promote international legislation against such crimes. The highest level authorities and delegations from Brazil, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Greece, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Korea, South Africa, Singapore, representatives of the University of Oxford, among others, participated in the World Forum on Rule of Law in Internet.