The North Atlantic Treaty Alliance meets Wednesday and Thursday in Madrid.
The question of the accession of Sweden and Finland will be discussed in particular.
This Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron called on NATO to deliver a "message of unity and strength".
"The message that must come out of Madrid is a message of unity and strength for the countries that are members of it as well as for those who aspire to join it and whose approach we support", declared the French president during a press conference at the end of the G7 summit in Bavaria.
“United in support for Ukraine”
“We must be united in Madrid, united in support for Ukraine, united in our firmness, united in the defense and security of the eastern flank of our Alliance,” insisted the French president.
In the context of the war in Ukraine, “it is the security of the European continent that is at stake”, he underlined.
Turkey blocks the membership of Sweden and Finland.
She accuses the Nordic countries of harboring militants of the PKK, an organization considered "terrorist".
Erdogan-Biden meeting
Ankara also denounces the presence in these countries of supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, suspected of having orchestrated an attempted coup in Turkey in July 2016.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Tuesday a possible meeting with US President Joe Biden "tonight or tomorrow" in Madrid, a few hours from the NATO summit.
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