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chief says turkey's president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden's bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it's clears the last major hurdle for sweden's accession. let's take a listen to what the nato secretary general — jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicate...

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The german foreign minister saying it's good news from vilnius. of course, the swedish government saying it's a good day for sweden. that seems to be one issue of membership well and truly settled. there is a little detail, though. just because recep tayyip erdogan has agreed that sweden can now become a member, it is actually the parliament in turkey the needs to approve that so a little side detail. the bigger issue of membership. just because sweden seems like it will become a member, there is of course another key country, ukraine. it is not a member of nato. it wants. but the agreement he...

Under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian's stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each and every member country effectively has a veto against anyone else joining. effectively has a veto against anyone elsejoining. turkey effectively has a veto against anyone else joining. turkey had some reservations that it made public and at the beginning of the day, the two sides seemed a long way apart. president erdogan is starting to talk about things like opening a...