Last Update: January 25, 2023, 09:24 AM IST
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Turkey said Sweden should not expect its country’s support after protests near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. (Representative photo/Shutterstock)
US State Department spokesman Ned Price was asked at a news briefing whether Washington would support a possible accession of Finland without Sweden
The Biden administration on Tuesday reiterated its support for both Finland and Sweden to join NATO as soon as possible, after Helsinki said it needed a pause in trilateral talks with Turkey over the Nordic countries’ application to join the military alliance. .
State Department spokesman Ned Price was repeatedly asked at a news briefing whether Washington would support a possible accession of Finland without Sweden, but he declined to comment on what he called a “hypothesis”. Live question now.”
“It’s always been discussed about Finland and Sweden … (about) moving from an alliance of 28 to an alliance of 30. That’s what we want to see,” Price said, referring to Finland separately in NATO. Inclusion “is just a question we are not entertaining.
Turkey’s president said Sweden should not expect his country’s support after a protest near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm over the weekend included the burning of a copy of the Quran.
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