NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today that he will invite top officials from Sweden to Brussels in the coming days, Finland and Turkey[/B] for a meeting on Ankara's opposition to the accession of the two Scandinavian countries to the North Atlantic Alliance.
"I am in close contact with Turkish President Erdogan and the leaders of Finland and Sweden," Stoltenberg told a news conference in Washington, D.C., after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Blinken said that the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine would last "many months".
"It could end tomorrow if Russia ends its aggression", but "we see no signs in that direction at this stage," he said during a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Washington.
In addition, Ukraine has given "assurances" to the US that it will not use new missile systems that Washington has promised to provide to target targets on Russian territory, Anthony Blinken said. "It is Russia that is attacking Ukraine, not the other way around. To be clear, the best way to avoid an escalation is for Russia to end the aggression and war it has unleashed," he stressed to members of the press, responding to Moscow's accusations criticizing the supply of these new American weapons.
Source: CNA
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