Lithuania: integration with Georgia, Moldova & Ukraine in EU interests
Lithuanian FM asserted that for the Eastern Partnership to succeed, political and economic ties with Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine need to be strengthened. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the European integration of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine is ‘within the interests of the EU’.
At a meeting of EU ministers of foreign affairs yesterday, Landsbergis asserted that for the Eastern Partnership to succeed, political and economic ties with Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine need to be strengthened.
The Lithuanian MFA has tweeted:
#Lithuania???????? stands for a clear perspective for #EaP, and especially Associated-Trio countries????????????????????????!#More4More is a well-established principle of this policy. It is now high time to implement it in practice!#Art49 #StrongerTogether https://t.co/tLn5JAbbY1
— LT_OSCE (@LT_OSCE) October 18, 2021
The Eastern Partnership, launched in 2009, is a joint initiative of the EU member states and their Eastern European partners — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Ten years after the creation of the Eastern Partnership initiative, the foreign ministry of Georgia declared that the country had taken all the opportunities which it offered.
In June 2021, Belarus suspended its membership in response to strict economic sanctions imposed by the EU.