Hungary reportedly postponed the ratification session for Sweden’s NATO membership until autumn. Agnes Vadai, deputy of the Democratic Coalition (DK), one of the opposition parties in the parliament, said in a statement on social media that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the Hungarian Citizens’ Union (Fidesz) party in the government are not planning to vote for Sweden’s membership in the upcoming approval session.
Alongside Vadai, another DK MP confirmed that the approval session was postponed to autumn.
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING IS ON JULY 6
It was reported that the high-level meeting on Sweden’s NATO membership, which will be attended by the foreign ministers of Turkey, Sweden and Finland, will be held in Brussels on 6 July.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reminded that Finland will attend a NATO summit as a member for the first time and stated that they are working to complete Sweden’s membership process until the NATO Summit to be held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, on 11-12 July.
Recalling that he made a proposal for a high-level meeting between Turkey, Sweden and Finland at the NATO headquarters in Brussels earlier this week for this purpose, Stoltenberg noted that the meeting, whose time has not been disclosed before, will be held “next week on Thursday”.