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Finland and Sweden can join NATO several times a day, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said in an interview with Yle TV.
As you know, due to the anti-Turkish actions in Stockholm, the process of Sweden's accession to NATO has stopped, which Swedish officials acknowledged today.
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Havisto said: “Of course we have to evaluate the situation. Something happened that would hinder the progress of the Swedish project in the long term.”
However, he noted that, according to his impression, the path to NATO is not closed for any of the Scandinavian countries.< /p>
Former far-right Danish anti-Islamist Hard Deal party activist Rasmus Paludan, who burned a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Sweden, repeated the action on Friday. He burned a Koran outside a mosque in Copenhagen surrounded by police. The politician also said that he will burn the Koran every Friday in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen “until Sweden is accepted into NATO.”
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said that “the provocation of burning the Koran in Stockholm is terrible. ” , however, there is freedom of speech in Sweden and the government itself does not support Islamophobic sentiments among the population.
Later, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced that the visit of his Swedish counterpart Paul Johnson, scheduled for January 27, had been canceled . The parties planned to discuss Sweden's membership in NATO.