LAST UPDATE: 19.21
Senior representatives from Sweden and Finland plan to travel to Turkey for talks aimed at overcoming Ankara’s objections to the two Nordic countries joining NATO, the Swedish Foreign Ministry has announced.
Representatives of the two Nordic countries will meet with their Turkish counterparts in the Turkish capital, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a text message.
Turkey says it wants the Nordic countries to stop supporting Kurdish militant groups present in their territories and to lift bans on the sale of certain weapons to Turkey.
NATO and the United States are convinced that Turkey will not block the accession of Finland and Sweden.
Any decision on NATO enlargement requires the approval of both 30 members of the alliance and their parliaments, but diplomats say Erdogan will be pressured to back down as Finland and Sweden significantly strengthen NATO in the Baltic Sea.
SOURCE: AMPE
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