Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to US President Joe Biden, spoke on Monday by phone with the spokesman for the Turkish Presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, to persuade him to allow Ankara to allow the incorporation of Sweden and Finland to NATO.
In a statement, the White House reported that Sullivan expressed “support” for the negotiations between Turkey and the Nordic countries during the call.
In addition, he reminded him that the United States “strongly supports” the entry of the two countries into the Atlantic Alliance.
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO considering their security threatened after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Turkey threatens to veto their accession because it considers that the Scandinavian countries support “terrorism ” Kurdish.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, affirmed on Sunday that the negotiations started last Wednesday have not produced results.
For his part, Biden re received last 19 May at the White House his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, and the Swedish Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, to express the “complete, total and full support of the United States ” at his entrance to the Alliance.
During the call, Sullivan also asked Kalin to “avoid an escalation” in the war in Syria, to “preserve the existing ceasefire lines and avoid further destabilization”.
He also urged the Turkish spokesman to opt for “dialogue and diplomacy” in the face of growing tensions with Greece, a country that has denounced violations of its airspace by Ankara.