Turkey will continue the talks with Sweden on joining NATO in Brussels

THE Turkey she is reportedly changing her stance on her inclusion Sweden in the NATOas shortly after the interruption of the talks, it was announced that they are starting again and this time they will be held in Brussels.

As it states bloomberg.com a few days after the visit of the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenbergin Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that a committee set up to oversee progress on the deal between the three countries will meet at the defense alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.

Speaking at a press conference with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday, Cavusoglu said representatives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would attend the talks.

It is noted that Sweden moved closer to seeing its membership bid blockedas Finland looks closer to winning the Turkish parliament’s signature. The announcement of the resumption of talks was welcomed by Sweden’s Prime Minister, Ulf Kristerson.

“I said a few weeks ago that we want to get back to these talks as soon as possible, to tone down and have constructive talks, as this is the condition for Sweden to join as soon as possible,” Christerson told a news conference in Stockholm and added: “It is very good that these talks can resume, but as far as I know there are no fixed dates for that.”

Relations between the two countries worsened after an incident in which a Danish-Swedish far-right activist burned the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, while a few days earlier some had hung an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upside down again in the capital. Sweden. After that, ratification talks stalled and Erdogan said Sweden should not wait for Turkish support for its membership bid.

Source: News Beast

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