“We hope to have good news soon,” said the Romanian Foreign Minister, while Turkey is hostile to this membership.
Bucharest and Warsaw are “optimistsconcerning the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, despite Ankara’s hostility, their foreign ministers in Istanbul said on Friday May 27.
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The two ministers were speaking at a joint press conference with their Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu after their talks. “Unlike many, I’m optimistic about it. I am convinced that this disagreement will be resolved in the best way, in the spirit of NATO solidarity.said Polish Minister Zbigniew Rau.
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An “essential” membership
“The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO is essential to make us stronger. (…) This accession must however be beneficial to all NATO allies, including Turkey“, he added. “We support the constructive dialogue in place here. We hope to have good news about Sweden and Finland soon.said Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu. A first meeting took place on Wednesday in Ankara between the Turkish authorities and Finnish and Swedish delegations.
Turkey accuses the two countries, in particular Sweden, of hosting Kurdish militants from the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which it considers a terrorist organization.
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She also denounces the presence in this country of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom she suspects of having orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt.Our request is quite legitimate and clear. These countries support terrorism, they must end this support and lift restrictions on defense industry sales to our country“, for his part repeated Mevlüt Cavusoglu.
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