The Hungarian Parliament has not included the vote on Sweden’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in its last scheduled session before suspending activities, so it cannot be held before September, preventing entry from being decided at the summit that the Alliance is holding in Lithuania on July 11 and 12.
For months, Hungary and Turkey are the only countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that have not yet ratified Sweden’s accession. The main reason that Turkey has not yet accepted Sweden’s inclusion in NATO is that Stockholm allows demonstrations of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on its territory.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, justified last April the delay of the ratification in which there were internal discussions in the parliament, which has an absolute majority. In recent months, the Hungarian government has explained the delay in Swedish criticism of the degradation of democratic values in Hungary.
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, assured Istanbul that Sweden has implemented everything agreed with Turkey in order to enter the alliance in the coming weeks, even so the Turkish government expressed its discomfort that the Swedes are part of the coalition of countries.
However, everything indicates that at the next summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, there will be no formal invitation for Sweden or Ukraine to join the Alliance, and also that the purpose is to maintain support for as long as necessary for Kiev. NATO has also recognized that, during the course of the war, the Ukrainians are not likely to be part of the Alliance.
Even so, Stoltenberg remains adamant that in Vilnius it is absolutely possible that Sweden will be a member by the time the summit of allied leaders takes place. With this next meeting he would complete the two new vacancies in the organization. “The allies are not going to discuss in Vilnius the possibility of issuing a formal invitation to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said from Germany.
With information from EFE
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