Turkey expects to ratify Sweden accession to NATO 'within weeks' - Swedish minister
BRUSSELS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Turkey is expected to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO within weeks, the Swedish foreign minister said on Wednesday, quoting his Turkish counterpart.
"I had a bilateral with my colleague, the foreign minister ... where he told me that he expected the ratification to take place within weeks," Tobias Billstrom told reporters before a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
"The Turkish foreign minister (Hakan Fidan) didn't present a date but said 'within weeks', he expected the ratification of Sweden's NATO protocol to be made within weeks. That was what he told me yesterday." (Reporting by Ingrid Melander and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by)
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