STOCKHOLM: Türkiye has acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara's concerns over their bids to join NATO and the three will hold further meetings, Sweden's chief negotiator in the accession process said on Thursday (Mar 9). Sweden and Finland applied last year to join N
STOCKHOLM: Türkiye has acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara's concerns over their bids to join NATO and the three will hold further meetings, Sweden's chief negotiator in the accession process said on Thursday .
"A little step forward, the talks have restarted and we have agreed that we will continue to meet and I can't say exactly when." In January, Türkiye suspended talks set up as part of a trilateral deal agreed in Madrid last year aimed at smoothing Finland and Sweden's accession process.
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