Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania and head of the European Union, said that the EU was planning to strengthen ties with members of the Eastern Partnership (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) to prevent them from integration in Russia, The Financial Times reports.
She noted that Russia was persuading them to join the Customs Union in the light of European economic problems. Grybauskaite promised not to promote anti-Russian tendencies and said that the main goal is to organize the summit of the Eastern Partnership in Vilnius in November.
