WASHINGTON - Nato said on Wednesday it will hold talks involving Turkey, Finland and Sweden in hopes of endingSecretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he would convene senior officials from the three
nations in Brussels in the coming days"to ensure that we make progress on the applications of Finland and Sweden to join Nato."
"My intention is to have this in place before the Nato summit" in Madrid starting on June 28, Stoltenberg said on a visit to Washington. "Finland and Sweden have made it clear that they are ready to sit down and to address the concerns expressed by Turkey," Stoltenberg told a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Sweden and Finland have historically tried to steer clear of angering nearby Russia but shed their reluctance to join Nato afterRussian President Vladimir Putin"wanted less Nato. He is getting more Nato," Stoltenberg said. But all 30 Nato members need to agree to admit a new member and Turkey has voiced objections, citing the presence in the two Nordic nations of militants from the PKK, the Kurdish separatist group considered terrorists by Ankara."We know that no other Nato ally has had suffered more terrorist attacks than Turkey," Stoltenberg said.
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