“It is still our strong desire to join NATO together with Sweden,” said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.
THE Finland maintains her plan to join the NATO at the same time as her neighbor Sweden and hopes that this will happen no later than July, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said today.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hinted yesterday, Sunday, that Ankara may agree to Finland joining NATO before Sweden, as tensions rise with Stockholm, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made similar comments today.
“Our strong desire is still to join NATO together with Sweden,” Haavisto told a news conference in Helsinki.
Last week Turkey suspended talks with Sweden and Finland for the two countries to join NATO due to protests in Stockholm that included the burning of the Koran.
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and need the approval of all the alliance’s member countries to join. Turkey and Hungary have yet to ratify the two Nordic countries’ requests.
“I still see the July NATO summit in Vilnius as an important milestone, when hopefully both countries will be accepted as NATO members at the latest,” Haavisto said.
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