"Better funding of direct functions and tasks would enable the VSD to more effectively prevent the increased activities of hostile security and intelligence services. The Committee therefore proposes targeted improvements of the proportion between the VSD running costs and costs of the intelligence and counter-intelligence operations. The need to strengthen Lithuania's intelligence institutions, in particular human intelligence and active counter-intelligence measures, was agreed upon in the accord between the political parties On Strategic Guidelines for the Foreign, Security and Defence Policy of the Republic of Lithuania for 2014–2020," said the Committee Chair, Artūras Paulauskas.
According to Mr Paulauskas, the VSD should cooperate more closely with the institutions that received intelligence. The Committee also instructed the VSD to submit proposals for more effective intelligence techniques.
"The VSD supplies the responsible authorities with information, but we want the information on threats to be followed by recommendations how to address them. This would ensure prevention of threats. The Department should also pay more attention to the processes that take place in the information space and social networks," underlined the Chair of the Committee.
Finally, the Committee decision recommended that the coordination of counter-terrorism be considered and the authorities submit harmonised decisions on the matter to the Committee.
