TALLINN, Oct. 7 - The signing of an association and free trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in Vilnius in November and the initialing of similar accords with Moldova and Georgia will not put and end to the EU's Eastern Partnership program, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said.

"The Easter Partnership program will definitely continue," he said in an interview with Interfax.

"It is being implemented at a varying pace and much depends on what these countries aspire to. For instance, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova hope for closer relations with the EU," the Estonian foreign minister said.