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Cannot meet all Turkish demands for NATO bid support: Swedish PM
Updated 21:47, 08-Jan-2023
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Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the European Council Building in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022. /CFP
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the European Council Building in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022. /CFP

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the European Council Building in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022. /CFP

Sweden is confident that Türkiye will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but cannot fulfill all the demands Ankara has made as the price of its support, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Sunday at a defense think-tank conference in Sweden.

"Türkiye both confirms that we have done what we said we would do, but they also say that they want things that we cannot or do not want to give them," Kristersson said.

Sweden, Finland and Türkiye signed a three-way agreement in 2022 aimed at overcoming Türkiye's objections to NATO membership for the two countries.

Source(s): Reuters

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