The President of the United States, Joe Biden, will meet next week at the White House with the Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson, to discuss his entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which has been stopped by Turkey. and Hungary.
This meeting between the two leaders will take place prior to the next summit of the Atlantic Alliance in Vilnius in Lithuania, scheduled for July 11 and 12. 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 maintains its discomfort that the Swedes are part of the coalition of countries. The White House said Biden and Kristersson will discuss US-Swedish cooperation on security and reaffirm their view that Sweden should join NATO.
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.
So far, at the 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 Kiev for as long as necessary. NATO has also acknowledged that, during the course of the war, the Ukrainians are not likely to join the Alliance, although they advocate that after the end of the invasion of Russia.
With information from EFE
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