The previously targeted deadline for Sweden’s membership in NATO was next week’s summit meeting in Vilnius.
Swedish The NATO knot will be opened again in Brussels by the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the meeting. Instead of the usual official level, the foreign ministers of Sweden, Finland and Turkey will also be present at the meeting this time, thus also the foreign minister from Finland Elina Valtonen (cook).
Turkey also currently has a new foreign minister. Hakan Fida belongs to the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan close circle, and he moved to his position at the head of the country’s intelligence service.
Prior the target deadline for Sweden’s membership in NATO was next week’s summit in Vilnius. Now the hope is that, at the latest, in Vilnius at least some kind of confirmation of the matter moving forward would be received.
Currently, only Turkey and Hungary have not ratified Sweden’s membership.
“If the situation there didn’t move in any direction, it would be really worrying”, senior researcher Iro Sarkkä About the Institute for Foreign Policy, he said he said in relation to Vilnius.
From Finland, the head of the protection police is also participating in the meeting on Thursday Antti Pelttari and the president Sauli Niinistön foreign and security policy advisor Petri Hakkarainen.
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