Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere said on his Twitter account that Sweden’s accession to NATO would strengthen the alliance and increase security in the Nordic region. On Monday, July 10, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed to submit Erdogan’s Stockholm’s approval proposal to the Turkish Parliament “as soon as possible”, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in Vilnius. announced that it did.
“This is a historic event for Sweden, Norway, the Northern region and NATO. We welcome the agreement that Stoltenberg, Erdogan and Kristersson reached today. The Scandinavian region’s accession to NATO makes the alliance even more stable and our region safer,” wrote the Norwegian Prime Minister.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had previously said that Sweden needed to act, not just reform legislation, to prove a change in its approach to counterterrorism and gain NATO membership. According to him, while the actions of the Kurdistan Workers Party, which is banned in Turkey, continue in Sweden, the law changes are meaningless.
Finland and Sweden applied to join the alliance in May 2022 amid events in Ukraine. Finland has already become the 31st member of NATO on April 4th. Sweden’s application has not yet received approval from Hungary and Turkey.
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