The official representative of the French Foreign Affairs Ann-Cler Lyandr asked to interview the interview after the question of burning the Qur’an at the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. Her interview video was published on the RTVI page on YouTube on Saturday.
Answering the question of the prospects for joining NATO Sweden and Finland, Lyandr said that Paris wishes to successfully complete this procedure “as soon as possible.” “This is a signal that we send to all our NATO partners, including Turkey,” she said.
When she was asked in this context to comment on the situation with the burning of the Qur’an in Sweden and the reaction of Turkey, she refused to give an answer. “I think this does not apply to the topic of our conversation. Maybe we will finish this? We are already talking for more than twenty minutes,” she said.
On January 21, the leader of the lawyer’s lawsuit party “Tough Course” by Rasmus Paludan with the public burning of the Qur’an in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm was held. After that, the relationship between the two countries worsened and in Ankara said that they would not approve the kingdom of joining NATO, until it fulfills the obligation within the framework of the memorandum signed with Turkey to counteract terrorism.
Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin on February 2 stated that her country intends to join NATO only with Sweden. She called on Turkey and Hungary to quickly ratify their application and expressed the hope that this would happen before the July Summit of the Alliance in Vilnius.