North Korea has thrown its weight behind a Russian effort to shore up global cyber “stability and security,” Moscow announced Tuesday, forming an unlikely coalition of states better known for instigating cyberattacks than stopping them.

Belarus, Syria and Nicaragua also joined the two to submit the Concept of the U.N. Convention on Ensuring International Information Security (IIS) on Monday as an official document of the U.N. General Assembly’s ongoing 77th session, the Russian foreign ministry said in a press release.

The ministry stated that the IIS is a prototype of a “universally legally binding” international treaty based on sovereign