NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on November 4 to discuss Ankara’s ratification of Sweden and Finland’s membership, AFP told AFP on Friday. a senior Turkish official.
“The Secretary General of NATO will come on November 4,” said this source on condition of anonymity, adding that Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson should be received in Turkey on November 8.
Mr. Stoltenberg announced on Wednesday that he would soon go to Turkey.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Kristersson interviewed by AFP did not confirm the date of the Swedish Prime Minister’s visit, saying that his teams were “working on the subject”.
To date, 28 Member States – out of thirty – of the Atlantic Alliance have ratified the accession of Sweden and Finland, which must be approved unanimously.
Only Hungary and Turkey have yet to give their final agreement.
The Turkish president has been threatening since mid-May to block the accession to NATO of the two Nordic countries, accusing Sweden and Finland of protecting Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units in particular. (YPG), considered terrorists by Ankara.
Erdogan warned again a week ago that Turkey’s parliament would not ratify the two states’ membership until Ankara’s extradition requests were honored.
