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Politico (19 May 2022)

Quint Forgey

The heads of the Nordic nations said they were committed to resolving Ankara’s concerns about their potential NATO membership.

The leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday committed to help assuage Turkey’s resistance to the two Nordic nations’ NATO applications, pledging from the White House that they would continue discussions with Ankara as they work to become full-fledged members of the Western military alliance.

The remarks from Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson came during a Rose Garden event with President Joe Biden, who conveyed the United States’ unequivocal support for Finland and Sweden’s potential NATO membership and described the bloc as “more needed now than ever.”

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