U.S. President Joe Biden mentioned Wednesday he’s “confident” that the United States will have the ability to promote F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye.
Biden answered journalists’ questions earlier than boarding a aircraft for Finland after attending the NATO summit in Lithuania.
Asked whether or not New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who opposes the sale of F-16s to Türkiye, would abandon his objection, Biden mentioned “I’m confident that Türkiye will continue to support Sweden getting into NATO, and I’m confident that we’ll be able to sell F-16s.”
He mentioned his bilateral assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a part of the NATO summit went very effectively.
Referring to Ukraine’s prospects of changing into a member of NATO, Biden mentioned: “Not until the war is over. One thing Zelenskyy understands is that it doesn’t matter whether he is in NATO now, as long as he has the commitments accepted by the allies.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed to ship Sweden‘s NATO accession protocol to parliament following a trilateral assembly with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson within the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Monday.
In addition, Erdoğan held a bilateral assembly with Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit, throughout which he hailed the beginning of a “new process” with Washington.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
