Croatia also opposed Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
The President of Croatia, as the second NATO member after Turkey, announced his opposition to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, and the path for the two European countries to join the alliance became more difficult.
Following Turkey’s opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, Croatia, as another NATO member, called for the two European countries to be barred from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic announced yesterday (Wednesday) that he intended to instruct Croatia’s permanent representative to NATO, Mario Nobilo, to prevent Finland and Sweden from joining the decades-old coalition, the Russian network Rashatodi reported. NATO.
Milanovic told reporters that the refusal to grant Finland and Sweden concessions to join NATO was drawing the international community’s attention to the problems faced by ethnic Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under current Croatian election laws, Croat representatives tend to be elected by the vote of Bosnian Muslims known as “Bosniaks”, and Zagreb is seeking a review.
“I have said it before,” the Croatian president said. “For me, Croats in Bosnia are more important than the entire Russian-Finnish border.” Stockholm and Helsinki formally renounced their history of neutrality on May 15 and applied for NATO membership. However, their accession to NATO requires the consent of all members of the Security Alliance.
Referring to Ankara’s opposition to any agreement allowing Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Milanovic said Turkey “showed how to fight for national interests”. Ankara officials have stated that as long as Finland and Sweden do not formally condemn their “terrorists and accomplices” who are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish People’s Liberation Front (DHKP / C) and are considered terrorists by Turkey. And if the United States does not agree to some of Turkey’s terms, Turkey will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşolu on Thursday morning reiterated Ankara’s opposition to Finland and Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
