Turkiye NATO talks with Sweden and Finland to resume on 9 March

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu [Murat Gök - Anadolu Agency]

Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Monday talks with Sweden and Finland over their NATO membership bids would resume on 9 March, although he said Sweden had still not fulfilled its obligations under a memorandum signed last year, Reuters reports. Turkiye, in January, cancelled talks with Sweden and Finland on their applications after a Danish far-right politician burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. "My colleagues will attend the meeting that will be held on 9 March," Cavusoglu told a news conference in Ankara, adding that the meeting would be held in Brussels. Sweden and Finland applied last year to join the North Atlantic defence alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine, but Sweden, in particular, has faced unexpected objections from Turkiye. READ: Turkiye, […] Source

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