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ANKARA, February 27 (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister Born Çavuşoğlu with Sweden and Finland said on Monday NATOThe accession talks will resume on March 9 after being suspended following the Koran-burning protest in Stockholm in January.
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Çavuşoğlu, who held a press conference in Ankara, said, “My colleagues will attend the meeting on March 9” and said that the meeting will be held in Brussels.
But he NATOAlthough the Secretary General and other allies said that Stockholm has changed the legislation, Sweden has still not fulfilled its obligations under the memorandum signed at the NATO summit held in Madrid in June of last year.
“Unfortunately, we did not see satisfactory steps from Sweden regarding the implementation of the Madrid memorandum,” Çavuşoğlu said. “It is impossible for us to say yes to Sweden’s application to NATO before we see these steps.”
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Sweden and Finland applied to join the North Atlantic defense alliance after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, but Sweden in particular faced unexpected objections from Turkey.
Ankara accuses Stockholm of harboring what it considers to be members of terrorist groups and is demanding their extradition as part of a green light for Sweden’s NATO membership.
The United States and other NATO countries are two North Europe hopes that his country will become a member of the alliance at the NATO summit to be held on July 11 in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
Although Ankara has indicated that it may approve Finland, it has made no guarantees that it will give the green light to Sweden’s proposal until then.
Report by Ezgi Erkoy and Ece Toksabay; Edited by Daren Butler, Humeyra Pamuk and Gareth Jones
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2023-02-27 13:07:27
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