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Stoltenberg says courts will decide on extraditions Turkey requests for Sweden's accession

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Sweden and Finland discuss the progress of the agreement reached in Madrid.

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Stoltenberg says courts will decide on extraditions Turkey requests for Sweden's accession

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Sweden and Finland discuss the progress of the agreement reached in Madrid

BRUSELAS, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, has defended this Tuesday that Sweden and Finland are complying with the agreement signed with Turkey to join NATO and has reiterated that the extraditions of Kurdish people requested by Ankara are a matter that has to be decided Swedish courts.

At a press conference after the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest, Romania, the NATO political chief stressed that Sweden and Finland are making progress in the agreement on anti-terrorism sealed with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the margins of the Madrid summit.

"As for individual decisions on expulsions and extraditions, this is a matter for the Swedish courts and there is the rule of law, politicians decide the laws but in the end they are the evidence that goes to a court to decide an extradition, it is how democratic states work ", has underlined.

The former Norwegian prime minister has thus insisted that Stockholm and Helsinki are complying and recalled that Sweden has changed anti-terrorism laws, is expelling people linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and has established a trilateral mechanism to deal with terrorist threats . During his trip to Ankara at the beginning of November, Stoltenberg called on the Turkish authorities to unblock the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, defending the security commitment acquired by both Scandinavian countries.

Allied sources have indicated that there are intense contacts on the part of various NATO members to unblock the entry of Sweden and Finland into the organization and to soon complete the ratification of the accession protocols. The 'yes' of all the allies is necessary and so far all have ratified it in record time except Hungary and Turkey.

The matter has an internal reading in Turkey, immersed in the campaign of the presidential elections in June in which Erdogan aspires to renew his mandate. The leader himself has hinted that he can delay the issue until after the elections, that is, summer 2023. The sources consulted acknowledge that there is a "window of opportunity" at the beginning of the year, when the "green light" from Hungary is expected. , and that it will be difficult to make progress once between the spring and the Turkish elections approach.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday held a meeting with his Swedish and Finnish counterparts Tobias Billstrom and Pekka Haavisto respectively on the sidelines of the meeting in Bucharest.

As reported by Cavusoglu himself on his official profile on the social network Twitter, the steps taken by the parties to implement the aforementioned agreement reached in Madrid have been on the table.

The Turkish diplomatic representative has stressed that Ankara has underlined its "hopes" for the Nordic countries to fulfill their part of the deal and thus Turkey to be able to ratify the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO.