The German authorities will suppress attempts to stage cyber attacks in the run-up to the parliamentary election scheduled for this year, regardless of where such a threat may come from, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview with Interfax ahead of his first visit to Moscow in his new capacity.
“We are taking the possibility of cyber attacks in connection with the election to the Bundestag very seriously, and regardless of where such an attack will be directed from! We cannot allow democratic elections to be jeopardized in such a way, and we have no intention of allowing that to happen,” Gabriel said.
Gabriel is expected to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 9.
“We are holding cyber security dialogue with a large number of states. Bilateral consultations were also held with Russia at the end of February.
They were quite constructive.
The OSCE Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the issue of cyber security in December 2016,” he said.
