Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on
Wednesday met his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in New
York with Ukraine and Turkey's opposition to Sweden and Finland
joining NATO high on the agenda.
Premier Mario Draghi told Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Malin in
Rome earlier that Italy fully backed the two countries' bid to
join the alliance, while Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan
reiterated Ankara's opposition over Sweden and Finland's hosting
members of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which Turkey
considers a terrorist organization.
New NATO members must be approved unanimously.
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