2023-09-21 16:44:34
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BRUSELAS, 21 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this Thursday that he hopes Sweden’s formal accession to NATO will take place this autumn, once Turkey completes the ratification process when its Parliament meets again after the summer recess. .
In statements at a forum organized by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the former Norwegian prime minister recalled the commitment of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the NATO summit in Lithuania to send ratification to Parliament and work for it to arrive. to a good port.
“He promised that this would happen as soon as possible, that is, when the Turkish Parliament meets again. We hope it will happen then. This is what I assume, I hope, and it is in line with what Erdogan said,” he said.
This is how Stoltenberg has referred to Sweden’s entry into NATO, which Erdogan has made subject to Stockholm putting a stop to the activity of organizations and people supposedly linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). “Sweden has carried out legislative amendments, but that is not enough,” the Turkish president recently stated regarding changes to the Swedish anti-terrorism law.
On the eve of the NATO summit, Erdogan agreed to unblock the situation, after Finland managed to circumvent the Turkish veto and enter the alliance last April. In any case, it remains to be seen if he finally gives the definitive yes to the inclusion of Sweden, since he continues to demand that the Swedish authorities extradite alleged members of the PKK.
Apart from Turkey, Hungary has not completed the ratification either, something that Stoltenberg has taken down after pointing out that Budapest has defended that it would not be the last ally to give approval, so he understands that once Turkey clears up its doubts, Hungary will do the same.
In any case, the allied secretary general wanted to highlight that, despite Ankara’s reluctance, Sweden’s entry into NATO could be the second fastest procedure in the organization’s modern history, only surpassed by Finland’s. .
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