Turkey blocks early vote on Sweden and Finland joining Nato
by Jon Henley Europe correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZBY5)
Move comes hours after the Nordic nations officially launched their bids to join the alliance
Sweden and Finland have formally submitted their applications to join Nato but Turkey blocked an early move to fast-track the Nordic countries' requests, demanding they extradite terrorists" and that the alliance respect its concerns.
The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, accepted the two historically non-aligned Nordic countries' membership requests, each in a white folder embossed with their national flag, at the US-led defensive alliance's HQ in Brussels on Wednesday.
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