BRUSSELS, May 13 – President of the European Council Donald Tusk said Tuesday that Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova have closer to the EU over the past decade.

"The Eastern Partnership has had its successes, its challenges, and also moments of high drama, as in November 2013, during the summit in Vilnius, where President [Viktor] Yanukovych rejected Ukraine's Association Agreement, which he later bitterly regretted," Tusk said in Brussels on Monday at a dinner marking the initiative's tenth anniversary of the project.