{"id":39898,"date":"2022-06-13T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=39898"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:50:19","slug":"finland-will-not-join-nato-without-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=39898","title":{"rendered":"Finland will not join NATO without Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.&nbsp;UkraineGate , 13 , June , 2022 | Political News.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finland will not join NATO without Sweden amid Turkish objections focused on Sweden&#8217;s alleged support for Kurdish militants.&nbsp;This was stated by President of Finland Sauli Niiniste on Sunday after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We (Finland and Sweden &#8211; ed.) Go side by side,&#8221; said Niiniste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stoltenberg, for his part, said Turkey had &#8220;legitimate concerns&#8221; about Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;None of NATO&#8217;s allies has suffered more terrorist attacks than Turkey,&#8221; he said, referring to the Kurdish militant attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Turkey plays a key role in supporting Ukraine. And now they are also playing a key role in finding a solution on how to export grain from Ukraine. So when a vital ally, such as Turkey, is worried about terrorism, of course , we have to sit down and take it seriously. And this is exactly what we are doing, &#8220;said the Secretary General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 18 May, Finland and Sweden formally&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1977374-finlyandiya-i-shvetsiya-podali-zayavki-na-vstup-do-nato\">applied<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;to join NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey, a longtime member of the Alliance, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/ru\/news\/1980500-turechchina-dopustit-shvetsiyu-ta-finlyandiyu-do-nato-yakscho-ti-pidut-na-10-umov-zmi-nazvali-spisok\">denied<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;membership applications, criticizing them for allegedly supporting terrorist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:&nbsp;Ukrgate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.&nbsp;UkraineGate , 13 , June , 2022 | Political News.&nbsp; Finland will not join NATO without Sweden amid Turkish objections focused on Sweden&#8217;s alleged support for Kurdish militants.&nbsp;This was stated by President of Finland Sauli Niiniste on Sunday after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg . Quote &#8220;We (Finland and Sweden &#8211; ed.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[5196,2998,813,890,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-39898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-finland","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sweden","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions\/39924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}