Bilateral meetings tomorrow morning with its president Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the next morning with him Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis the French president will have Emmanuel Macronon the sidelines of the NATO summit, at Vilnius, Lithuaniathe Élysée announced today, Monday.

The issue of Sweden’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance, which has not yet been ratified by Turkey and Hungary, will be at the center of the consultations that the French president will have with his Turkish counterpart tomorrow.

The French side has made it clear that the ratification of Sweden’s accession should take place without further delay. As for the other issues to be discussed at the NATO summit, French diplomatic sources said that Paris is in favor of Ukraine joining the Atlantic Alliance, noting, however, that until the accession is complete, military support to Kiev should continue . In particular, he should be given the necessary guarantees, not only in relation to dealing with the Russian attack, but also in relation to dealing with similar attacks in the future. Finally, regarding the issue of defense spending, Paris is expected to inform NATO that by 2030 these will exceed 2% of French GDP.