UK-Lithuania joint declaration on bilateral cooperation 2022 - GOV.UK 05/08/2022, 19:14 capabilities to counter interference, and protect against disinformation, espionage and state-sponsored malicious cyber activity. We signal our readiness to strengthen our cooperation by sharing information bilaterally as well as within relevant multilateral groupings. Cooperation on international criminality 24. We affirm our close partnership on security and commit to working together in tackling identified shared threats, including those posed by serious and organized crime such as human smuggling, modern slavery, cybercrime and illicit finance. 25. We will strengthen our cooperation with particular focus on information and intelligence exchange, ensuring high levels of data protection. We will reinforce capabilities against serious and organized crime actors. We will maintain and further develop a close dialogue on serious and organised crime, in areas that impact on our national security interests. 26. We will enhance our close security partnership and deepen cooperation between our law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, strengthening ongoing cooperation via the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement. This includes identifying opportunities to strengthen law enforcement information exchange via existing mechanisms, such as Interpol, the exploration of new mechanisms to enable real-time reciprocal alert exchange, and affording each other the widest measure of cooperation for the exchange of information extracted from criminal records, both for criminal and non-criminal purposes in accordance with applicable data protection rules. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-lithuania-joint-decla…n-2022/uk-lithuania-joint-declaration-on-bilateral-cooperation-2022 Page 10 of 13