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 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.