Odds Finland joins NATO before Sweden are increasing, Swedish PM says
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO last year but have faced objections from Turkey, which says the two countries harbor members of what it considers terrorist groups. The countries resumed talks on the process in Brussels last week.Ankara has been clear it has greater objections to Sweden’s accession than Finland’s, and Kristersson said Turkey’s position in that regard still remained, meaning the two Nordic countries might not join together as they prefer.
“What we have encountered in recent weeks is that the probability of this happening at different times has increased,” Kristersson told a news conference in Stockholm before leaving on a visit to Germany.“At the end of the day, it is not a matter of whether Sweden becomes a member of NATO, but when.”Sweden joining NATO is ‘mother of all unintended consequences’ for Russia: Swedish defence minister
At the meeting in Brussels last week, Turkey acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara’s concerns and the three countries agreed to hold further meetings as part of the NATO process.In January, Turkey suspended talks set up as part of a deal agreed in Madrid last year aimed at smoothing Finland and Sweden’s accession process after a far-right politician burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, in Stockholm.
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