NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will attend this Saturday, June 2 in Ankara the inauguration ceremony of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, re-elected. He will hold bilateral talks with President Erdogan and several senior Turkish officials, NATO said Friday in a statement.
Turkey and Hungary are the latest of the 31 NATO countries that have not yet ratified Sweden's membership. Finland, for its part, formally became the Alliance's 31st member on 4 April, but Turkey has so far blocked the Swedish candidacy.