• safeguarding our internal security, including the integrated rescue system,
civil protection, crisis management, and protection of critical infrastructure;
• fostering and building our population’s resilience and active role in security
and fostering and building social cohesion and stability;
• protecting the institutions of the democratic rule of law;
• safeguarding the Czech Republic’s economic security, including energy
security, preserving and developing our strategic industries, and improving
the competitiveness of our strategic industries in international markets;
• safeguarding the Czech Republic’s communication security, information
security, and cyber security and defence and safeguarding an open, stable,
and secure cyber space;
• systematically reducing our dependence on actors who pose a threat to the
Czech Republic and ensuring that economic coercion by such actors does not
affect the Czech Republic’s sovereign acts and decisions;
• building our political, economic, and security relations with democratic
Asian and Oceanian partners to prepare Czechia for a potential strategic
shock in the event of a conflict in the Asia-Pacific;
• the UN retaining its global stabilizing role: improved efficiency of the UN,
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and cooperation with
partners and like-minded countries;
• preparedness for emergencies and crisis situations, both natural and
human-made;
• preventing and managing local and regional conflicts and mitigating
their impacts with special regard to the protection of vulnerable groups of
population;
• the OSCE resuming its role in conflict prevention, democratization,
confidence building, and security and a functioning and transparent
conventional arms control regime in Europe;
• promoting and developing regional cooperation;
• diversified, reliable, and affordable supply of minerals, nuclear fuel, and
other necessary input for critical infrastructure and industrial production
and maintaining an adequate level of the State’s material reserves;
• promoting and safeguarding technological development, with special regard
to emerging and disruptive technologies;
• safeguarding food security: promoting sustainable agriculture and local food
industry and maintaining an adequate level of the State’s food reserves;
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• promoting democracy, human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the
principles of the rule of law worldwide;
• promoting equal opportunities and mainstreaming the perspectives of
vulnerable and disadvantaged groups into security agendas at home and
worldwide;
• reducing crime, most importantly violent, economic, organized, and cyber
crime along with fighting corruption;
• safeguarding environmental security, with special regard to environmental
protection and ecosystem services, sound management of natural resources,
climate change mitigation, and management of climate change impacts.
• fostering a tolerant civil society and suppressing extremism and its root
causes;
Other important interests. The advancement of other important interests
serves our vital and strategic interests. It also improves our society’s resilience
to security threats. Our other important interests include namely the following:
• transforming our education system to provide more space for cyber and
information literacy, including critical thinking, self-protection, and mutual
help skills for emergencies and crisis situations;
• developing bilateral relations with neighbours, with the other EU Member
States, with the United States, and the United Kingdom;
• improving the efficiency and security of digitization processes in State
bodies and the public administration system and improving the expertise of
civil servants responsible for tasks with security implications.
• an independent Ukraine, firmly anchored in Euro-Atlantic structures,
capable to resist Russia’s great power ambitions;
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