NATO doesn’t see the Madrid summit on June 28-30 as a deadline to approve Finnish, Swedish membership bids as Turkey’s concerns are being considered, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
"The summit in Madrid was never a deadline," he said at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki, when asked if the concerns will be settled by the time of the summit.
"Turkey has raised some concerns and then we sit down and we are working on them as we speak," Stoltenberg continued. "We have frequent, regular contacts with Turkey, and with Finland and Sweden, to look into the issues that Turkey has raised."
