• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-turkey-de225bc46b9fac46b0087244c28bc72f" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg</a> said he looked forward to welcoming Sweden and Finland at next month's summit in Madrid, adding that it will be a "historic" opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Elephant in the room: The NATO leader did not address Turkey's reluctance to accept the Nordic countries' applications, which sits as a major blockade for the applications as unanimous support is needed to add new NATO members.</li></ul><ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A step back: In a private session between Stoltenberg and Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez, the NATO leader had expressed his confidence that Turkey can be convinced to drop its rejection of Finland and Sweden's NATO applications.</li></ul>

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