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Sweden can’t meet some Turkey demands for NATO bid: PM
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SALEN, 09 January 2023, (TON): Sweden’s prime minister said “Turkey, which has for months blocked NATO membership bids by Sweden and Finland, has made some demands that Sweden cannot accept.”
“Turkey has confirmed that we have done what we said we would do, but it also says that it wants things that we can’t, that we don’t want to, give it,” Ulf Kristersson said during a security conference also attended by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.
He said “we are convinced that Turkey will make a decision, we just don’t know when.”
He added that it will depend on internal politics inside Turkey as well as “Sweden’s capacity to show its seriousness.
Sweden and Finland broke with decades of military non-alignment and applied to join the US-led defence alliance in response to Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine.
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