OUR Turkey acknowledged that Sweden And Finland taken tangible steps to address its problems Ankara about their attempts to join NATO all three countries will hold additional meetings, said Sweden’s chief negotiator for the accession process.

“We see that Turkey has acknowledged that both Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps on this agreement, which is a good sign,” the chief negotiator said. Oscar Steenstrom at a press conference at NATO Headquarters following trilateral talks.

The Swedish official was referring to the Memorandum on Turkish Ratification Steps signed last year by Turkey, Sweden and Finland.

He stressed that the three countries will hold further meetings, but no date has been set.

At the same time, he said that the Turkish side did not report whether Stockholm and Helsinki had fulfilled all the points of last year’s trilateral agreement, but expressed optimism about the possibility that the new parliament, which will be formed after the May elections in Turkey, will vote for the ratification of the accession of the two Scandinavian countries .

Reuters