US’ Antony Blinken urges Turkey to immediately approve Sweden’s Nato accession
Bids for membership must be approved by all Nato members but Turkey and Hungary have yet to approve Sweden’s bid.in late March, but says Sweden harbors members of militant groups it considers terrorists.
Sweden is fulfilling “the very final part” of a memorandum of measures with a new piece of legislation on counter-terrorism due to come into force on June 1, he said.Turkey has sought to buy US$20 billion worth of F-16s and nearly 80 modernisation kits from the United States. But the sale has been stalled due to objections from US Congress over Ankara’s refusal to green light to Nato enlargement, its human rights record and Syria policy.
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