Will accelerate Finland, Sweden membership process: Nato

Nato and the US said on Sunday they were confident Turkey would not hold up membership of Finland and Sweden in the Western military alliance.
Turkey, which had surprised its allies in recent days by saying it had reservations about Finnish and Swedish membership, laid out its demands on Sunday on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers in Berlin. Ankara said it wanted the Nordic countries to halt support for Kurdish militant groups present on their territory, and lift bans on some sales of arms to Turkey.
"I'm confident that we will be able to address the concerns that Turkey has expressed in a way that doesn't delay the membership," Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said. He also said that the military alliance would ensure a "quick and swift process" for potential applications for membership by Finland and Sweden.
"All allies realize the historic magnitude of the moment," he told reporters in Berlin by video after a series of informal meetings of Nato foreign ministers. "This is a historic opportunity we need to seize." US secretary of state Antony Blinken declined to go into details of closed-door conversations in Berlin but echoed Stoltenberg's position.