The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament approved Sweden s NATO accession bill

Mondo International Updated on 2024-01-31

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed a bill on the protocol on Sweden's accession to NATO on the 26th, which will be submitted to the Grand National Assembly for discussion and voting.

On the same day, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly discussed the bill on Sweden's accession to NATO, and the Justice and Development Party, the largest party in the parliament, as well as the Republican People's Party and the National Action Party, all supported the passage of the bill. In the end, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly voted to approve the bill.

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Fouad Oktay, said that Sweden had made progress in combating the flow of funds to terrorism, but had not achieved the results that Turkey had hoped for in the fight against terrorism.

The bill will then be submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly for discussion and a vote.

Turkey** Erdogan submitted a bill to parliament on October 24 to approve Sweden's accession to NATO, but the agenda for consideration of the bill has since been postponed.

Sweden and Finland applied to NATO at the same time in May 2022. According to the protocol, all NATO members must unanimously agree to admit new members. Finland was officially allowed to join NATO in April this year, but Sweden's accession protocol has not yet been ratified by Turkey and Hungary.

Edited by Liu Zihan).

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