NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke at the joint press conference held after his meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Reminding that Finland will participate in a NATO summit as a member for the first time, Stoltenberg 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 “on Thursday next week”.
Stoltenberg said on Monday, “I spoke with President Erdogan yesterday. I am also in close contact with the Finnish and Swedish governments. We agreed to hold a high-level meeting in Brussels before the summit. At this meeting, foreign ministers, heads of intelligence services and national security advisers. The aim is to make progress towards completing Sweden’s accession to NATO.” had used the phrase.
The fourth meeting of the Permanent Joint Mechanism, which was established in accordance with the tripartite agreement between Turkey, Finland and Sweden at the NATO Summit held in Madrid in June 2022, was held in Ankara on 14 June.
The meeting held at the Presidential Complex hosted by the Chief Advisor to the President, Ambassador Akif Çağatay Kılıç, was attended by NATO Secretary General Cabinet Chief Stian Jenssen as the head of the NATO delegation, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ambassador Jan Knutsson as the head of the Swedish delegation, and the Finnish Foreign Ministry as the head of the Finnish delegation. Jukka Salovaara, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry.
Source: AA