Swedish-Turkish meeting on NATO membership to be held Thursday

The agreement between Sweden and Turkey on Swedish membership takes place during the NATO M�de in Oslo.

Discussions between the two countries over Sweden's NATO membership were suspended during the period when the presidential elections were held in Turkey.

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom is due to meet with his Turkish colleague this week to discuss the delay in Sweden's accession process to NATO, Billstrom said on Monday (29). Billstrom stated that he contacted Mevlut Cavusoglu to congratulate President Tayyip Erdogan on his victory in the presidential elections on Sunday (28). “He responded very quickly and confirmed that we could make contact and discuss the NATO issue,” Swedish natio…

Ministri zahraničných vecí Švédska a Turecka sa "čoskoro" stretnú, aby rokovali o vstupe Švédska do Severoatlantickej aliancie. V pondelok to uviedol šéf švédskej diplomacie Tobias Billström. Billström najprv pre stanicu SVT uviedol, že so svojím tureckým rezortným partnerom Mevlütom Čavušoglom sa stretne vo štvrtok na zasadnutí ministrov zahraničných vecí krajín NATO v Osle. Neskôr však Billströmov hovorca povedal, že Čavušoglu napokon do Nórsk…