Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that the Swedish authorities positively evaluated Turkey’s intention to continue negotiations on Stockholm and Helsinki’s applications to join the North Atlantic Alliance. transmits TASS. According to him, Ankara never completely cut off the dialogue with the Swedish side, even during the protests against the burning of the Koran.
“I salute that they want to restart talks on the tripartite agreement. Turkey has never been closed. But there was considerable turbulence and it was difficult to talk about the burning of the Koran and the demonstration of puppets,” Kristersson said.
As the Swedish Prime Minister pointed out, at the moment the parties have not yet agreed on the timing of a new trilateral dialogue round on the approval of the two northern states’ applications to join NATO from the Turkish parliament. However, he did not specify whether Stockholm had agreed to Ankara’s additional terms, including the expulsion of a number of Kurdistan Workers’ Party supporters that Turkey deems terrorists.
Earlier media reported that Sweden was on 2 March. will accept Decision on the anti-terrorism law within the framework of the agreement with Turkey.