India, Sept. 14 -- The New Delhi Declaration issued at Saturday's Brics summit backed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, encouraging all states to sign and ratify the treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2024 and opened for signature in Hanoi last October.

Paragraph 47 of the declaration is the first time the Brics grouping explicitly endorsed the Convention. India, which hosted the summit and helped negotiate the treaty over five years, has not signed it. As of this week, 82 other states have.

Sandeep K Shukla, cybersecurity expert and director of the Cyber Manthan Center at IIIT Hyderabad, flagged this issue, noting that the declaration "encouraged countries to sign the UN treaty on cybercrime but inter...