NATO chief says Turkiye agrees to send Sweden's NATO accession protocol to Parliament swiftly
At talks in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting for a two-day summit starting Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan committed to put the Nordic country's accession protocol before Parliament “as soon as possible,” the head of NATO said.
It's unclear when the Nordic country's membership might be approved, but the agreement appears to have taken the issue off the agenda of the summit, which was meant to focus uniquely on the war in Ukraine and Kyiv's own membership aspirations. The Biden administration has backed Turkiye's desire to buy 40 new F-16s as well as modernization kits from the U.S. It's a move some in Congress, most notably Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J, have opposed over Turkiye blocking NATO membership for Sweden, its human rights record, its relations with Greece and other concerns.
Stoltenberg said that Turkiye's relationship with the EU was “not an issue for NATO, it's an issue for the European Union.” But he told reporters that “what Sweden agreed today as an EU member was to support actively the efforts to reinvigorate Turkiye's EU accession process.” On arriving in Vilnius, Erdogan first met with Kristersson, before breaking off for separate talks with European Council President Charles Michel.
Earlier, Erdogan's office said he told Biden during a telephone call Sunday that Turkiye wanted a “clear and strong” message of support for Turkiye's EU ambitions from NATO leaders. The White House readout of the Biden-Erdogan call did not mention the issue of Turkish EU membership.
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