NP AU T IB OL NI KA OL S S KE AC RU I RN I ĖT YS T SRTART AE TGEI G Y L I E T U V O S R E S J A 12. The primary interests of the national security of the Republic of Lithuania are the interests a failure to defend which would eventually result in a violation of the vital interests of the Republic of Lithuania. The primary interests of the national security of the Republic of Lithuania are as follows: 12.1. viability and unity of NATO and the EU, security, solidarity, democracy and welfare of all states of the Euro-Atlantic community; 12.2. security, stability, spreading of democratic and European values in all states located in the Eastern neighbourhood of the Republic of Lithuania; 12.3. sustainability of the State’s development: economic, energy, environmental, information, cyber, social security. Chapter IV THREATS, DANGERS AND RISK FACTORS 13. In a dynamic, complex and unpredictable security environment of the Republic of Lithuania, external and internal, military and non-military threats, dangers and risk factors are interlinked. Taking into account the changed security environment, conventional military threats to the Republic of Lithuania or any other country of the region are no longer theoretical while military and non-military (diplomatic, information, cyber, economic, energy, financial, legal) measures against the national security of the Republic of Lithuania may be used concurrently seeking to affect the most vulnerable areas of the State. 14. Threats, dangers and risk factors which must be given particular attention by the national security institutions are as follows: 14.1. conventional military threats caused by the Russian Federation’s capacity and will to use military force in order to achieve its objectives, concentration and development of its military capabilities in the neighbourhood of the Republic of Lithuania as well as military activities lacking transparency and demonstrating power at the borders of the Republic of Lithuania and other NATO member countries; 14.2. covert military and intelligence threats which are employed by foreign states and which may be used in the attempt to negatively impact the political system of the Republic of Lithuania, military capabilities, law and order, social and economic stability, to hinder the national and NATO decision making process, to put the unity of NATO and the EU to the test, to unlawfully obtain classified information; 14.3. threats to the unity of the Euro-Atlantic community – global or regional processes, activities of third parties weakening transatlantic relations, NATO’s commitments of collective defence, the EU’s capacities to implement a common policy; 14.4. regional and global instability – conflicts arising in the countries outside NATO and the EU the government of which is vulnerable to outside pressures and is not able to ensure effective control of the territory and security of the population, to solve economic, social problems as well as challenges posed by climate change. Causing large scale migration, humanitarian crises, encouraging terrorism, organized crime and disrupting the supply of strategically important 5