The Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday he had another telephone conversation with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with the object of Sweden’s accession to NATO, with the Americans to intensify the pressures in Ankara to resolve the issue.

“Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken. NATO enlargement and the NATO Summit to be held in Vilnius were discussed at the meeting” emphasized by the Turkish side.

It is noted that on Sunday there was a communication from the president of the USA Joe Biden with its Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, with object the F-16 fighters and the subject of Sweden. The presidents of Turkey and the US agreed on Sunday in a phone call to have a one-on-one meeting at the Alliance summit in Vilnius. Underscoring that Turkey was sincere about joining the EU, Erdogan specifically stated that “Ankara wants to revive its accession process for full inclusion in the bloc”.

At the same time, in the context of the Summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will meet in the afternoon with Erdogan and the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Christerson.

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberglast Thursday he declared optimistic. It was preceded by quadripartite meeting involving senior officials from Sweden, Turkey and Finland at NATO headquarters in Brussels.