World News | Turkey, Sweden and Finland will hold a new round of Nordic bid for NATO negotiations in autumn

Helsinki [Finland]Aug. 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Representatives from Turkey, Sweden and Finland met in the Finnish city of Vantaa on Friday and agreed to continue talks in the coming autumn on the Nordic country’s promotion to NATO’s expert level, the Finnish government said.

Turkey, Finland and Sweden signed a tripartite memorandum in Madrid on June 28, agreeing to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation and establish a permanent joint mechanism to monitor the implementation of the memorandum.

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“Finland hosted the first meeting of the Permanent Joint Mechanism on 26 August at the Konigstedt estate in Vantaa, Finland, with experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice and Defence, the Governments of the President and the Prime Minister and as an intelligence service,” the statement said. Say.

The parties discussed concrete steps to implement the tripartite memorandum and agreed that the mechanism will continue with an expert-level meeting this fall, the statement added.

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Finland and Sweden are awaiting approval of their NATO applications. As of August 25, 23 of the 30 countries had completed the formal process of welcoming Finland and Sweden to the alliance. These applications have not been approved by Spain, Greece, Portugal, Slovakia, Turkey, Czech Republic and Hungary.

On May 18, three months after Russia launched its military campaign in Ukraine, Finland and Sweden submitted their applications to join NATO, abandoning decades of neutrality. Turkey had previously blocked the review process for applications over Helsinki and Stockholm’s long-standing support for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey regards as a terrorist, and asked the Nordic countries to stop supporting the PKK. (ANI/Sputnik)

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