VILNIUS: US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday (Jul 11) for his 'courage' in dropping opposition to Sweden's entry to NATO. At a meeting during the
VILNIUS: US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his"courage" in dropping opposition to Sweden's entry to NATO., Biden celebrated the conclusion of a major diplomatic push to get Erdogan to stop blocking Sweden's application.
Frustration had been mounting in Western capitals at Erdogan's obstruction of Sweden, which required unanimous approval from NATO members in order to complete its entry bid into the alliance, launched, along with Finland, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year. "He has placed no caveats or conditions on that in his public and private comments over the past few months. And he intends to move forward with that transfer in consultation with Congress."
Sullivan said"we will work with the Congress on the appropriate timing for getting" the warplanes to Türkiye. But he could not"speculate on the precise day it's going to happen".
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