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Swedish PM Andersson says will live up to terms of NATO deal with Turkey

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Published: Aug 16, 2022, 08:53 UTC

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will live up to the conditions of a memorandum of understanding agreed with Ankara to overcome Turkey's objections to Swedish membership of NATO, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Tuesday.

NATO summit in Madrid

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden will live up to the conditions of a memorandum of understanding agreed with Ankara to overcome Turkey’s objections to Swedish membership of NATO, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Tuesday.

She also told a news conference that the decision to extradite a man to Turkey wanted for fraud made last week was made “according to Swedish and international law, and we will continue to work that way”.

(Reporting by Simon Johnson; editing by Niklas Pollard)

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