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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley, Europe correspondent

Finland and Sweden call on Hungary and Turkey to ratify Nato applications

Ulf Kristersson (left), the prime minister of Sweden, and Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, at a press conference  in Helsinki
Ulf Kristersson (left), the prime minister of Sweden, and Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, holding a press conference in Helsinki on Tuesday. Photograph: Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images

The prime ministers of Finland and Sweden have urged Hungary and Turkey to approve their countries’ applications to join Nato, but Ankara insisted it would not lift its objections without further extraditions of suspects it considers terrorists.

The two Nordic nations applied to join the US-led defence alliance in May, jettisoning decades of military non-alignment in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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