NATO member-states welcomed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's backing of Sweden's membership bid, in a communique released after the critical summit held in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday.
"We look forward to welcoming Sweden as a full member of the Alliance and, in this regard, welcome the agreement reached between the NATO Secretary General (Jens Stoltenberg), the President of Türkiye, and the Prime Minister of Sweden," said a joint statement issued after day one of the ongoing summit.
Türkiye on Monday, the eve of the summit, agreed to send Sweden's NATO Accession Protocol to its parliament for ratification. The announcement was made by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg after meeting Erdoğan and Kristersson.
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