BEIJING, January 15 (Xinhua) Comprehensive foreign media reports, senior Turkish officials said on the 14th that Sweden may need more than six months to take the necessary measures to win the country's support for its NATO membership.
Ibrahim Kalin, an aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, praised Sweden's constitutional reforms to meet Turkey's demands, but said Sweden may take until June to enact the measures needed to implement them, the Associated Press reported. law.
"It really depends on the speed, breadth and depth of action (Sweden) in addressing these issues," Kalin said.
"What (Sweden) told us is that the new constitution will come into full force in June, but maybe they can do something before then."
On May 18, 2022, Finland and Sweden submitted an application to join the alliance to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
At present, only two member states of Hungary and Turkey among the 30 NATO members have not approved this application.
Finland and Sweden have signed a tripartite agreement with Turkey aimed at persuading Turkey to allow the two countries to join NATO, but Turkey has been opposed to it.
Turkey has set out a series of demands it says must be met before supporting Sweden and Finland to join, including tightening anti-terror laws and extraditing people Turkey considers criminals.
The New York Times reported that Kalin acknowledged the demands, but said Turkey had not asked Sweden or Finland "to do anything outside their legal framework."
But he said Turkey was in no rush and could wait until its demands were met.
"We are not in a hurry, you are in a hurry to join NATO," he said.
Earlier on the 8th, Swedish Prime Minister Christensson stated that all the conditions proposed by Turkey for Sweden's accession to NATO will not be met.