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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

NATO chief launches last ditch-bid to win over Turkey to back Swedish membership

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has ordered emergency talks to thrash out alliance membership for Sweden before next month’s crunch coalition meeting.

Turkey is blocking Stockholm from joining the 31-nation bloc - and time is running out for its bid to be approved before NATO leaders meet in Lithuania in two weeks for their annual summit.

Finland and Sweden launched applications last year in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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