Mitch McConnell, head of the Republicans in the Senate of the U.S. Congress, said the U.S. could approve Sweden’s application to join NATO before next August.
The leader of the Republican minority in the U.S. Senate said in a televised statement during his visit to the Swedish capital Stockholm on Sunday night: “The United States will do it faster than previous requests, hopefully we can ratify it before August. Other NATO countries can do it faster. ” We are confident that it will be ratified in both the Senate and the House. ”
The American politician believes that the United States should be the leader in ratifying the NATO accession agreement “for Finland and Sweden to join NATO, because these two northern countries will contribute to the military and strategic strength of the alliance ”.
Visit to Sweden with the Republican leader in the Senate, Other members of the Senate, Susan Collins, John Barrasso and John Cornyn, met with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Defense Minister Peter Holtqvist.
Anderson reported on Twitter that the two sides discussed the situation in Ukraine, transatlantic cooperation and the security policy option in Sweden.
The leadership of Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Workers Party supported the Kingdom of Sweden’s entry into NATO at a meeting on Sunday. According to Foreign Minister Anne Linde, the motive for the move was Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, which she says “worsens the security situation in Sweden and in Europe as a whole”.
On May 13, a multi -party parliamentary report was published in Sweden, concluding that NATO membership would increase the level of security in the kingdom, while joining the alliance would be discussed in Parliament on 16 May, and has now been achieved an absolute majority. With six of Sweden’s eight parties voting in favor of NATO membership voting in favor of such a move, the kingdom could send application documents for NATO membership to Brussels (the alliance’s headquarters) on Tuesday.
Source: TASS
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