The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) could grow again in just a matter of weeks as the alliance and its European neighbours react to Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine.
Sweden’s foreign minister says he has received the word of his Turkish counterpart that they would be ratifying their accession within “weeks”, removing one of the final hurdles to further NATO growth. The Nordic state abandoned centuries of non-alignment in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year and, alongside Finland, applied to join the alliance.
While Finland’s application was ratified relatively quickly, Sweden’s has dragged on, with opposition from both Turkey and Hungary preventing ratification. At least one of those objections appears to be on the verge of falling away, however, with Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström coming out of the NATO foreign ministers meeting on Wednesday saying Turkey had placed “no new demands” on the country in order to get its signature.
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Billström said, per Politico: “He…
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