Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that the Swedish authorities will not give up their desire to be part of the North Atlantic Alliance. transmits Reuters. According to him, the country’s view on this issue will not change if it does not join the bloc before the NATO summit.
“Sweden will become a NATO member. No one can promise that this will happen especially in Vilnius. [на саммите альянса в июле] or right in front of Vilnius, even if that was our goal from the start,” Kristersson said.
He also added that the Swedish representatives will soon meet again with their Turkish counterparts on the backdrop of Ankara’s closure of Stockholm’s road to NATO. Kristersson emphasized that on the eve of the alliance’s summit in Lithuania, the parties could once again discuss all controversial issues.
Sweden, along with Finland, applied to join NATO in May 2022, violating its long-standing refusal to join the military alliance on the pretext of a conflict in Ukraine. The integration of the two states has met with resistance from Turkey, which has demanded changes from northern countries in the fight against terrorists, particularly those related to the 2016 Turkish coup attempt. And even though Helsinki had solved all the problems with Ankara by joining NATO in April 2023, Stockholm still could not come to an agreement with the Turkish side.
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