Finland, Sweden and Turkey meet this month to advance NATO accession

MADRID, 19 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Representatives of the governments of Finland, Sweden and Turkey are scheduled to meet this month to try to smooth things over and relaunch the Nordic countries' accession to NATO, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has announced.

The three countries signed on the margins of the summit of leaders of the Atlantic Alliance, held in Madrid, an agreement by which Ankara undertook to withdraw its veto in exchange for a series of concessions from Helsinki and Stockholm.

To this day, the Turkish authorities still do not consider anything closed, but apparently there is a shared commitment to continue talking. Haavisto explained that this month's meeting, in which Finland will host, is part of the follow-up to the June pact, reports the STT agency.

More than twenty countries have already ratified the entry of Finland and Sweden into the Atlantic Alliance --this very week the United States has delivered the documents--. Among those still pending is Spain, although the Government has already sent the protocol to the Cortes that must be approved.