Swedish Foreign Minister: “We believe that we have now reached a point where Sweden and Finland have fulfilled all our commitments”
Sweden’s patience is running out for Turkey’s intransigent stance on the matter of its accession to NATO. “The Turkish National Assembly should proceed with the process of ratifying the protocol for the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, since the two countries fulfilled the commitments which they had undertaken in the context of the agreement with Turkey”, pointed out the Swedish Foreign Minister on Tuesday.
“We think we have now reached a point where Sweden and Finland we have fulfilled all our commitments in this (tripartite) memorandum and it is time for the Turkish National Assembly to start the process of ratifying the protocol,” said Tobias Billström in an interview he gave to the Reuters agency, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“We firmly believe that we have done what was asked and we see no reason at all not to start the process” of ratifying the protocol for joining NATO, explained the head of Swedish diplomacy.
However, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said earlier today that it was “absurd” that a Swedish prosecutor had not taken action over the incident in which a statue of President Tayyip Erdogan was hung by a rope in Stockholm.
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