Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to send Sweden’s NATO bid to the Turkish Parliament “as soon as possible,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says. Sweden’s NATO accession has been held up by objections from Turkey since last year.
Stoltenberg made the announcement after talks with Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on the eve of a NATO summit in Lithuania.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.
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