Representatives of the European Union, along with numerous leaders of allied countries, welcomed, on Tuesday 11 July in Vilnius, the agreement reached the previous evening between Turkey and Sweden, which should allow for the Nordic country to join NATO (see EUROPE B13219A1).
For Gitanas Nausėda, the President of Lithuania, which is hosting the NATO summit, Sweden’s accession “will significantly strengthen the Baltic Sea region and the entire Alliance”. “We are united and we are...