The article argues that building the organization's international cooperation capacity and deepening involvement in this cooperation is an increasingly important factor in ensuring the basic values of official statistics, as expressed in the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, the European Statistics Code of Practice and Recommendation of the OECD Council on Good Statistical Practice.
The on-going processes of globalization and digitalization lead to profound transformations in the environments of the systems of public statistics, progressive changes in the functioning of information markets and the economics of information. In these conditions, the importance of public statistics is growing, it needs to take new roles, change the way it operates, take a new position on the information market, invest in new research methods based on new data sources, change the way data, information and knowledge are communicated and disseminated. These changes bring not only considerable challenges to official statistics, but also bring new threats. Therefore, there is a need to discuss how to protect official statistics against new risks.
The article argues that in the new conditions, the development and involvement of statistical offices in cooperation at the international, supranational and global levels is becoming more and more important. The article discusses the role of fundamental principles of official statistics in the context of new challenges, attempting to declare that international cooperation is not only one of the elements of building an effective statistical system, but now **one of the most essential tools for maintaining and implementing the fundamental principles of official statistics**. The article presents a number of arguments and evidence of this thesis.