This first meeting with the Finnish president Sauli Niinisto and the Swedish head of government Magdalena Anderson will take place at the beginning of the NATO summit organized in Madrid, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, announced the Finnish presidency on Twitter.
“Negotiations” seeking to unlock Turkey’s veto are also scheduled for Monday at NATO headquarters in Brussels.indicated the Finnish government.
For its part, the Erdogan government warned of excessive optimism and in a statement to the Habertürk television network, spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, very close to the head of state, warned that “Attending a summit does not imply changing position.”
“Now the ball is in their court,” he said of Sweden and Finland.
Andersson spoke by phone with Erdogan on Saturday, but no progress was recorded, Turkey reported.
Erdogan announced in mid-May a surprise blockade of the candidacies of Sweden and Finland and this issue will be the focus of the summit in Madrid that takes place between Tuesday and Thursday night.
Turkey accuses Sweden of harboring militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an organization considered “terrorist” by Ankara and its Western allies. He also denounces the presence in the country of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülenwhom he suspects orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt.
It also demands that the arms export blockade imposed by both Nordic countries be lifted after their military intervention in northern Syria in October 2019, a tightening of Swedish anti-terrorism legislation and the extradition of several individuals it considers to be “terrorists”.
Source: Ambito
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