.SecDef Lloyd Austin met with his Swedish counterpart and reaffirmed the US's commitment to Sweden, predicting it would become a member of NATO by this summer. '[Sweden] will...add a lot of value to NATO, our overall effort,' Austin said.
Austin met with Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson at the headquarters of the Swedish navy in Musko Naval Base near Stockholm during the first leg of his four-day trip to Sweden and Germany for the next meeting of the Defense Contact Group, which meets monthly to discuss the war in Ukraine. He told Jonson that he hoped Sweden would be able to join the alliance by the summer.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan objected to the Nordic applications. Erdogan initially cited Swedish and Finnish arms embargoes on Turkey, as well as a broader complaint that they are too welcoming of Kurdish immigrants. Erdogan would condemn some of these immigrants as terrorists linked to the PKK, a group of Turkish Kurdish separatists.
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