Sweden will seek constructive progress in talks with Turkey over Ankara ‘s objections to the Nordic country’ s bid to join NATO, Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde said today.
Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO last month in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but have faced opposition from Turkey, which accuses them of supporting and offering refuge to Kurdish fighters and other organizations. Ankara considers it terrorist.
Objections have taken officials in Finland, Sweden and NATO by surprise, and they have narrowed the prospects for rapid progress with membership bids ahead of a NATO summit later this month in Madrid.
“Our request has received widespread support among NATO members,” Linde told the Swedish parliament. “Our ambition is, in a constructive spirit, to make progress on the issues raised by Turkey.”
The Swedish minister added that there should be no doubt that Sweden is working with its allies against terrorism.
The Swedish government has survived a third motion of censure with the help of a lawmaker whose demands to support the Kurds in northern Syria could complicate NATO membership efforts, all of whose members must approve new members.
Ankara has also succeeded against the Swedish authorities because in 2019 they stopped arms exports to Turkey after the country launched a military operation in northern Syria.
Without directly referring to Turkey, Linde said Sweden’s participation in NATO could “change the conditions for arms exports within our national regulatory framework”.
Source: AMPE
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