On Thursday 6 July, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that a meeting would be held in Vilnius on Monday 10 July with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to try to move forward Sweden's NATO membership process.
On 6 July, Mr Stoltenberg chaired what he described as a “productive” meeting on Sweden’s membership of the Alliance, with delegations from Turkey, Finland and Sweden.
The Secretary General felt that “the time...