BRUSELAS, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, will begin a three-day visit to Turkey this Thursday with which, as he himself advanced, he will try to unblock the process of accession of Sweden and Finland to the Atlantic Alliance, paralyzed by suspicions turkish
Stolteneberg will meet with the main authorities, including the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the defense and foreign ministers. With the latter, Mevlut Cavusoglu, the head of the Atlantic Alliance plans to offer a press conference on Thursday.
Last week, Stoltenberg already anticipated this trip and its objectives. “We will do this to ensure that, as soon as possible, 30 Allies have ratified the Protocol of Accession, which will allow Finland and Sweden to become full members of the alliance,” he said from NATO headquarters in Brussels.
At the moment, 28 members of the Atlantic Alliance have already ratified the protocol, confirmed Stoltenberg, who said that Hungary will carry out the parliamentary process in the autumn. Ankara has made its approval conditional on the two Nordic countries making progress on counter-terrorism, mainly to combat groups such as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
