Erdogan proposes Swedish NATO membership to the parliament – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented a proposal to the Turkish parliament to include Sweden in the NATO defense alliance. Reuters reports. He recommends the Turkish National Assembly to vote “yes”. When the vote is carried out, the Turkish president, on the other hand, is tight-lipped about it. Jens Stoltenberg during the NATO meeting in Oslo. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news – I look forward to a quick vote to ratify, and to welcome Sweden as a NATO member shortly, says NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. – As I said to President Erdogan when we spoke at the weekend, this will make the entire alliance stronger and more secure. Good news – Good news that Turkish President Erdogan has now handed over the ratification documents to the Turkish Parliament. Now it remains for Parliament to deal with the matter. We look forward to becoming a member of NATO. This is what Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson writes on X. On Tuesday, Kristersson will meet NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Stockholm. It has been a year and a half since it was unanimously decided to invite Sweden and Finland into the defense alliance. The invitation came as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jens Stoltenberg and Ulf Kristersson during the NATO summit in Vilnius. Photo: Nato In March this year, the required three-quarters majority was in place in the Swedish Riksdag. They gave a historic “yes” to NATO. On 17 May, the application was sent. Since then, the Swedish application process has more or less stood still. Koran burnings and Kurdish dissidents living in Sweden, the diplomatic blisters have been many for the Swedes and for Stoltenberg. Recently, several of NATO’s member states have expressed that they are tired of waiting for Turkey’s response. – I am impatient myself, Stoltenberg said about the situation surrounding Sweden’s membership in NATO. Now the application process seems to be moving again, but Turkey is not alone in stopping the Swedes’ application. Missing two votes All 31 NATO countries must agree before a new member can be admitted to the organisation. Sweden lacks both Turkey and Hungary. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has previously said that there is no urgency for Hungary to ratify Sweden. At the same time, he has expressed that Hungary will not be the last country to ratify Sweden’s membership.



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