The US senators did not warm up to the idea that the United States would intervene in the difficulties between Finland and Sweden and Turkey on the conditions under which Turkey would accept NATO membership.
The United States The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate discussed the dispute with Turkey, which is slowing down Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership, early on Thursday.
The Deputy Foreign Minister was consulted on the committee Karen Donfriedia and Deputy Minister of Defense Celeste Wallanderia. Donfried is in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. State Department and Wallander at the Department of Defense for International Affairs.
According to the news agency Reuters, Donfried was of the opinion that the discussions between Finland and Sweden with Turkey have been constructive this week.
“We are convinced that this will be resolved positively. NATO has broad and strong support among its allies for Finnish and Swedish memberships, ”said Donfried.
Donfriedin According to him, obtaining Turkish approval depends on Turkey and Finland and Sweden. This message is relevant because several experts and politicians have estimated that the United States could have a chance to resolve the situation through its intervention.
This was also the wish of the Czech Foreign Minister, for example Jan Lipavský during a visit to Finland in early June.
Read more: Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský: The United States must put pressure on Turkey
Procurement of fighter jets in Turkey is considered to be one of the levers. Turkey would like to return to the program for the acquisition of F-35 fighters, from which the United States excluded Turkey after its acquisition of the S-400 anti-aircraft system from Russia in 2019.
Director of the U.S. House Armed Forces Committee Adam Smith though said earlier in Junethat Turkey will not be able to return to the F-35 program. The reason is more practical than political.
There is a transfer of information in modern weapons systems, and if Turkey were to receive F-35 fighters, this transfer of data could lead to too much critical information being sent to Russia about the details of the operation of these fighters.
As an alternative to the opening of the NATO hub in Turkey, Finland and Sweden, the news agency Reuters Joe Biden and the President of Turkey Recep Tayiip Erdoğan would meet.
Biden has arranged bilateral meetings until the end of June at the G7 and NATO summits, but not with Erdoğan. The G7 meeting will be held in Germany from 26 to 28 June. and the NATO summit in Madrid on 29-30 June. June.
The United States in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, senators did not support the idea of the United States intervening to open the node that emerged.
“I think it’s best to leave this between them and Turkey,” the Republican senator said Jim Risch in his opening remarks.
However, Risch used much of his speech to emphasize how Finland and Sweden have been monitoring NATO’s northern dimension outside NATO for decades. Risch emphasized that Finland and Sweden belong to NATO.
In Finland and Sweden has called for a solution to the issue of members of the Kurdish PKK and Turkish dissidents in Turkey by the time of the NATO summit.
US Deputy Secretary of State Karen Donfried was also asked early Thursday whether the three negotiating partners, Finland, Sweden and Turkey, could be on the same line by the time of the Madrid meeting.
“They’re serious about it,” Donfried told Reuters.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu denied in London on Thursday that the Madrid NATO summit would be the deadline. On the other hand, Çavuşoğlu said that progress had been made.
“We have our disagreements and there are certain things where we’ve gotten to the same page,” he said.
Read more: Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu: Madrid meeting is not the limit for Finland’s and Sweden’s membership
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