Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday that the likelihood that Finland joins the NATO military alliance before Sweden had increased, though Swedish membership was only a matter of time.
"At the end of the day, it is not a matter of whether Sweden becomes a member of NATO, but when."
At the meeting in Brussels last week, Turkey acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara's concerns and the three countriesIn January, Turkey suspended talks set up as part of a deal agreed in Madrid last year aimed at smoothing Finland and Sweden's accession process after a far-right politician burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, in Stockholm.
Sweden has said it has fulfilled its part of the Madrid memorandum. As part of its efforts to reassure Turkey it is taking its fears over militants seriously, the Swedish parliament is due to pass newTurkey and Hungary are the only NATO countries that have yet to ratify the Nordic countries' accession and Kristersson said other alliance members were putting pressure on Ankara to speed up ratification.
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