(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Sweden and Finland should tighten their terror legislation and
increase cooperation with NATO, including Türkiye, in order to
fight terror and terror-labelled organizations such as the PKK, the
alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview
with Swedish public broadcaster SVT on Sunday, trend reports citing
tass .
'It is important for Türkiye as Türkiye is a NATO country that
has been most exposed to terrorist attacks and is therefore
concerned about it. It must be proportionate, but Türkiye has the
right to defend itself against terrorist attacks,' he told SVT.
According to the NATO chief, it is 'normal' that the
ratification of Sweden and Finland's accession applications
requires time. Stoltenberg said that 28 out of the 30 member
countries had already given their green light to the two Nordic
countries. 'The abnormal thing this time is that it has gone so
very quickly,' he remarked in the interview.
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