The Foreign Ministry called on the ITU to fight interference in the affairs of countries through Starlink

The head of the department in the Department of International Information Security of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Boris Vasiliev, stated the need for decisions at the level of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to combat the use of Starlink satellite Internet systems to interfere in the internal affairs of countries.

Boris Vasiliev noted that more than ten countries have already faced the threat of interference through Starlink.

The diplomat made this statement within the framework of the II Global Digital Forum, which takes place in Moscow from October 8 to 10.

Solutions at the level of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are needed to combat the use of Starlink satellite Internet systems to interfere in the affairs of countries, said Boris Vasiliev, head of the department in the department of international information security of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

On Saturday, he took part in the discussion “Non-GSO communication systems: from national ambitions to regional cooperation” as part of the II Global Digital Forum. The diplomat drew attention to the scale of the problem of interference in the internal affairs of countries around the world with the help of Starlink. According to him, more than ten countries have already faced this threat.

“On the question of what to do next on the global stage. The only answer we see is the ITU, the International Telecommunication Union. Within the ITU, we must take some kind of coordinated and collective decisions aimed at stopping this problem,” he said.