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From left to right: Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, and Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde pose for a picture after signing a memorandum in which Turkey agrees to Finland and Sweden's membership of the defense alliance in Madrid, Spain on June 28, 2022
FINLAND’S Left Alliance has rejected an agreement signed by ministers with Turkey on Tuesday in return for approval of Helsinki’s Nato membership application, branding it a “political demonstration.”
Former education minister Jussi Saramo argued that the document “does not bind Finland to anything” as it has not been discussed by the parliament’s committee on foreign affairs.
Turkey had vowed to block Finland and Sweden’s applications to join the military alliance on the grounds that both countries support what Ankara has described as “terrorism.”
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Meanwhile, Nato foreign ministers debate increased weapons spending as police investigate the bloc’s purchases of military equipment
