Peteris Ustubs

In Khakriz, Kandahar, with EU support, we've completed a check dam capable of storing over 131K cubic meters of water. 💧 This initiative will support over 2,500 families across 12 villages, improving access to water, recharging groundwater, & helping reduce the risk of floods.

🇪🇺🤝🇯🇵 Today, President @vonderLeyen heads to Japan for the 30th EU–Japan Summit. The Summit will focus on trade, green and digital innovation, security, and defence cooperation. Strong partnership. Shared future.

Touchdown in Osaka! The 🇪🇺🇯🇵 Summit tomorrow is timely. The world is changing rapidly. For partners like us, it means becoming even closer to face the realities of our time. And shape a world that reflects our values: Open economies. Secure societies. And fair rules.

With Global Europe, one of the main pillars of the new EU budget, we 🇪🇺 will remain a reliable and proactive partner. It will allow us to build strong strategic partnerships with concrete benefits to our partners, our citizens, our companies and to support sustainable…

I welcome the agreement on our 18th sanctions package against Russia.   We are striking at the heart of Russia's war machine. Targeting its banking, energy and military-industrial sectors and including a new dynamic oil price cap.   The pressure is on. It will stay on until…

As communities in Myanmar continue to recover from this year’s powerful earthquake, EU aid keeps arriving. Over 50 tons of shelter, sanitation and hygiene items just reached @IOM_Myanmar in Yangon - donated by Italy. 🇮🇹 Grazie! #EUSolidarity

📢 Exposure 📈 Investment 🤝 Partnerships   With support from @EU_Partnerships, 40 IOM-supported businesses joined a major trade show in #Herat, attracting over 11,500 visitors.   They closed sales, promoted local industry and gained market opportunities. 🎥

Together with Papua New Guinea, we are investing in regional trade and better access to safe water. Over 95% of trade in the region passes through Rabaul Port. It’s a pillar of economic connectivity for PNG and its neighbours.

Good meeting of EU signatories of #IMEC in Brussels 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪 to reflect, coordinate and chart way forward in #TeamEurope spirit. Strong #GlobalGateway potential for IMEC network across three continents. Next steps - work on feasibility studies & engagement with private sector.

💧 Safe water in Papua New Guinea! Today, the 🇪🇺 & 🇵🇬 signed a new deal of €3 million under #GlobalGateway to: ☑️ improve access to clean, reliable water in 4 district towns ☑️ help reduce water loss in Port Moresby.

Enhancing 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea’s port infrastructure through #Global Gateway Together with @EIB & @AFD_en, the Rabaul port, a major commercial hub, will be modernised to become the country’s first green port, to boost trade & resilience against natural disasters. @EUinPNG

A special moment at today’s EU Ambassadors’ meeting in Islamabad — the final one for those in the front row. Long live #TeamEurope! 🇪🇺 #StrongerTogether @RKionka @GermanyinPAK @HennyFdeVries @DKinPK @AustriaInPAK

🇪🇺🇹🇯 European Union and Tajikistan discuss energy future. EU invests €70M to boost Tajikistan’s energy sector, supporting reforms, renewables, and regional trade under the #GlobalGateway initiative. #EUinTajikistan #CleanEnergy

🇪🇺🇹🇯 The EU supports Tajikistan’s sustainable & competitive #textile sector! At the First #InternationalTextileForum in Dushanbe, EU Ambassador Karoblis reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to #green, inclusive growth in the #cotton-textile industry. #GlobalGateway

True delight to meet Ambassador Moses K Mose to discuss upcoming Pacific Islands Forum hosted by #SolomonIslands in #Honiara in September. #Pacific #GlobalGateway

🇪🇺🇮🇳 Delighted to meet my dear @nsitharaman at #FFD4. The @EIB is financing strategic projects in India, from transport to water. Our partnership is stronger than ever and we’re determined to work even closer together for shared prosperity and peace.

H.E. Aidit Erkin was glad to meet today with fellow 🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇲🇹🇯 Ambassadors for an engaging exchange with @CharlotAdriaen & @PeterisUstubs from @EU_Partnerships. They had a productive discussion on the outcomes of the recent Summit and plans for joint activities in the near future.

We are ending the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good! We propose a gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports to be completed by the end of 2027. This will end energy and economic risks, while ensuring stable, cleaner, and secure energy for all EU countries ↓

Afghanistan remains in crisis: 🔹 23.7M people need aid 🔹 9M are displaced 🔹 4.8M face risk of forced returns Voices from the ground reveal the urgent challenges millions face every day. Watch the video. 👇