{"id":876,"date":"2023-07-10T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiaspeaks.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:36:39","slug":"sweden-fm-optimistic-turkey-will-drop-objections-to-nato-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiaspeaks.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/sweden-fm-optimistic-turkey-will-drop-objections-to-nato-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden FM Optimistic Turkey Will Drop Objections To NATO Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sweden’s foreign minister expressed optimism on Monday that Turkey\u00a0will drop its objections to Swedish NATO membership, saying the Nordic’s country’s accession is a question of when, not if.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson were expected to meet later Monday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, ahead of a two-day NATO summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstr\u00f6m told public broadcaster SVT that he expects Turkey\u00a0will eventually signal that it will let Sweden join the alliance, though he couldn’t say whether that would happen at the annual summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we are counting on, of course, is to reach a point where we get a message back from President Erdogan that there will be what you might call a green light … a message that the ratification process in the Turkish Parliament can start,\u201d Billstr\u00f6m said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey\u00a0has stalled Sweden’s NATO accession, saying it needs to do more to crack down on Kurdish militants and other groups that Ankara considers as threats to its national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-Turkey and anti-Islam protests in Stockholm raised doubts that an agreement could be reached before the alliance’s summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billstr\u00f6m said Sweden has fulfilled its part of a tripartite deal that Sweden, Finland and Turkey signed at last year’s NATO summit in Madrid.<\/p>\n

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