Türkiye is “starting a new process” with the US, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated, as he met together with his US counterpart Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Erdoğan met Biden on the sidelines of the continuing NATO summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.
The Turkish president stated that earlier conferences with Biden had been “warm-up sessions,” including: “Now we are starting a new process.”
Erdoğan said that he believes it’s time for consultations on the heads of state degree with the US as a part of the strategic mechanism.
“I consider this meeting as the first step towards that,” he added.
Biden thanked Erdoğan for his management and finishing up diplomacy on Sweden’s NATO accession course of, saying that he appears to be like ahead to assembly the Turkish president once more.
Sweden’s accession to NATO following Finland is among the primary agenda gadgets of the summit.
On Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg introduced that Türkiye has agreed to ship Sweden’s NATO Accession Protocol to parliament following a trilateral assembly between himself, Erdoğan, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
The closed-door assembly passed off on the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (LITEXPO), the venue of the two-day NATO assembly that started earlier within the day.
Earlier, Erdoğan additionally met together with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The 31 leaders of the navy alliance are assembly to debate the Ukraine battle, Sweden’s NATO membership, and steps to strengthen the group’s protection and deterrence, amongst different points.
Türkiye has been a NATO member for over 70 years, and boasts its second-largest military.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
