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He was “firmly convinced that Sweden should sit at the top table alongside Finland as a new ally,” the head of government said in a government statement in the Bundestag on Thursday ahead of the NATO summit on 11 and 12 July in the Bundestag. Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
He calls on re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pave the way now – as was jointly decided at the NATO summit in Madrid last year.
Before the Russian offensive against Ukraine broke out, Sweden, like Finland, applied for NATO membership in May 2022. Finland has been a member since early April, while Sweden still lacks approval from Turkey and Hungary. Erdogan recently questioned Sweden’s entry into the NATO summit and again accused Sweden of not taking decisive action against “terrorist organisations”. Sweden recently tightened its terrorism laws, after which the country’s Supreme Court approved the first extradition of a PKK supporter to Turkey.
Scholz said the NATO summit in July would send a strong signal of transatlantic cohesion and determination to stand up for common security. “Our promise of mutual aid in NATO applies – without ifs and buts,” he said. At the same time, a number of decisions will be taken to adjust military planning, for example to improve the protection of underwater infrastructure.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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