The Senate of the US Congress passed a resolution on the ratification of the protocols for the accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Alliance. This has been reported TASS.
Voting is currently ongoing, but the document has already received the required number of votes for approval. In addition, the resolution must be signed by US President Joe Biden and sent to NATO.
Formerly American Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) applied He called on the US Senate to vote against NATO enlargement because of the risk of conflict with Russia.
At the summit on 29 June, NATO leaders formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance. On 5 July, the Finnish and Swedish Foreign Ministers signed protocols on NATO accession.
At the same time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declarationThis will prevent Sweden and Finland from joining the NATO alliance until Ankara’s demands are met.
Before that Sweden accept Within the framework of the agreement reached with Turkey, the law on terrorism has been toughened. Erdogan said Turkey received guarantees from Sweden to extradite 73 members of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).