The Eastern Partnership was launched in 2009 on the initiative of Poland and Sweden, where I was the foreign minister at the time. The aim was to respond to the desire of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine for some of the instruments of integration that had helped transform the Central European and Baltic countries into the democracies – and now EU members – that they are today.
东方合作伙伴始于2009年，由波兰和瑞典发起，当时我是瑞典外交部长。东方合作伙伴的目标是响应亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆、白俄罗斯、格鲁吉亚、摩尔多瓦和乌克兰对某些一体化工具（instruments of integration）的渴望。这些一体化工具让中欧和巴尔干国家成为今天的民主国家和欧盟成员国。