Turkey and Sweden will meet in Brussels earlier than the Vilnius summit – Muricas News

Swedish and Turkey plan to carry a high-level assembly on Sweden’s potential NATO membership earlier than the July summit of the army alliance, NATO’s secretary basic stated Jens Stoltenberg on Monday.

The assembly between the 2 international locations is to be held in Brussels. In line with Stoltenberg, international ministers, intelligence chiefs and nationwide safety advisors will take part within the assembly.

“The objective is to make progress in Sweden’s NATO membership,” Stoltenberg stated, in accordance with the Reuters information company.

The NATO summit will happen on the eleventh and twelfth. July in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Swedish NATO membership lacks the ratifications of Turkey and Hungary.

In line with Turkey, Sweden has not but fulfilled the phrases of the settlement between the international locations, and as well as, the query of the legality of burning the Koran in Sweden is inflicting friction between the 2 international locations.

Sweden’s NATO membership has been an vital precedence for Finland within the army alliance. International minister Elina Valtonen (kok) acknowledged throughout his go to to Sweden final week that Finland’s precedence is for Sweden to turn into a NATO member on the Vilnius summit.