NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Sweden could join the alliance this fall. He said it on the air. SVT.
“I’m always very cautious about specific dates, but I’m optimistic,” said Stoltenberg, answering a question about Sweden joining the North Atlantic alliance this fall.
Former Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declarationHe said Ankara does not yet know how long the Turkish parliament will consider Sweden’s application for NATO membership. Erdogan said that the protocols regarding Sweden’s accession to NATO have been sent to the Turkish Grand National Assembly and that the parliament can quickly decide on this issue, but that Sweden must “keep true to its word”.
Sweden applied for NATO membership in 2022. Turkey, a member of the alliance, has set the conditions that Stockholm must meet for Ankara to ratify membership. As a result, Ankara promised to send Sweden’s application for approval to parliament. This is expected to happen in the fall. It is also worth remembering that the foreign ministers of the participating countries in Iraq previously called for Muslim states to react to the actions in which the burning of the Holy Quran was planned. The situation worsened after protesters in Baghdad attacked the Swedish embassy.
before in Sweden allowed to burn Koran.