Joe Biden gives support to Sweden and Finland as members of ‘revived Nato’

The countries' leaders meet the US president at the White House as they seek a resolution with Turkey

The US president, Joe Biden, has welcomed the Finnish and Swedish leaders to the White House promising full support for their membership applications to what he called a revived Nato" in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

In their remarks in the Rose Garden, the Finnish president, Sauli Niinisto, and the Swedish prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, addressed the only major barrier to their countries' accession to the alliance: the objections of the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, who restated on Thursday his resolve to veto their membership.