Jukka Salovaara, Permanent State Secretary of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made a statement to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter regarding the first meeting of the Permanent Joint Mechanism established within the framework of the Tripartite Memorandum signed by Turkey, Finland and Sweden at the NATO Madrid Summit on 28 June.
Stating that they started to work on the establishment of the cooperation mechanism specified in the agreement, Salovaara said, “We think we have reached a deep consensus with Turkey. Turkey has not made any new extradition requests from Finland. I can’t say anything about this for Sweden. This was not our main topic.” used the phrases.
On the other hand, officials announced that the meeting was held in the capital, Helsinki. Later, Finnish officials corrected this information and noted that the meeting was held in the city of Vantaa, and such a statement had been made before for security reasons.
Source: AA