From Reuters:
“Turkey's NATO talks with Sweden and Finland to resume on
March 9”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday
talks with Sweden and Finland over their NATO membership bids would resume on
March 9, although he said Sweden had still not fulfilled its obligations under
a memorandum signed last year. Turkey in January cancelled talks with Sweden
and Finland on their applications after a Danish far-right political politician
burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. "My
colleagues will attend the meeting that will be held on March 9,"
Cavusoglu told a news conference in Ankara, adding that the meeting would be
held in Brussels.
Sweden and Finland applied last year to join the North
Atlantic defence alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine, but Sweden in
particular has faced unexpected objections from Turkey. Ankara accuses
Stockholm of harbouring what it considers members of terrorist groups. Sweden,
Finland and Turkey signed the memorandum on steps toward Turkish ratification
at a NATO summit in Madrid in 2022. "Unfortunately, we have not seen
satisfactory steps from Sweden on the implementation of the Madrid
memorandum," Cavusoglu said. "It is not possible for us to say
"yes" to Sweden's NATO bid before we see these steps."
The Swedish government plans to formally decide on March 9 on
a long-planned proposal to make it illegal to be part of, or to endorse, a
terrorist organisation. Stockholm aims for the legislation to enter into force
on June 1, though no date has yet been set for a parliamentary vote on the
bill.
The United States and other NATO countries are hoping that
the two Nordic countries become members of the alliance at a NATO summit due to
be held in July 11 in Lithuania's capital Vilnius. While Ankara has signaled it
could approve Finland's application, it has given no assurances that it will
give Sweden's bid the green light by then. A Swedish foreign ministry
spokesperson confirmed that talks with Turkey would resume on March 9, saying they
would be held at civil-servant level.
Hungary is the only other NATO member not to have ratified
the Nordic countries' applications. Its parliament is scheduled to start
debating the matter this week. Budapest said on Saturday a vote may take place
in the second half of March.
^ This is not about supporting Terrorists as Erdogan says it
is about Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban supporting Putin and his Russian
Nazi Zs.
That is the only reason Orban and Erdogan refuse to allow
Finland and Sweden to join NATO after all 26 other NATO Member Countries have
officially voted to let them join.
Orban and Erdogan are Putin Lackeys who support his War
Crimes and Murder of Innocent Men, Women and Children while at the same time
getting his Money and Materials.
It is really sad to see Hungary and Turkey doing this. I
would rather see Hungary and Turkey kicked-out or voluntarily leave NATO and
Sweden and Finland join in their place. ^
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