The Turkish president’s recent submission of a bill approving Sweden’s NATO membership bid to parliament does not change the state of Hungary’s ratification of the country’s accession, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in New York on Tuesday.
Arriving at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Szijjártó said he had spoken to his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, earlier in the day, who had told him that a bill approving Sweden’s NATO membership had been submitted to Turkiye’s parliament.
“This changes nothing on our side,” Szijjártó said, according to a ministry statement. “Hungary’s parliament is the parliament of a sovereign country, so it will make a sovereign decision on this issue.”
“And now that the matter has been submitted to parliament in Turkiye as well, the Turkish parliament is practically at the stage the Hungarian parliament has been at for months, since the Hungarian government has already submitted the draft resolution needed for the ratification to parliament,” he added.
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But the socialists and EU lapdogs will follow Turkey’s undermining of NATO happily while denigrating Hungary and Orban.
Türkiye is bound by the NATO Treaty – and their armed forces are definitely to be reckoned with.
So – Türkiye gets away with a little more posturing, etc. than a country with low added military value. Spoiler: we hide under the NATO umbrella, we are not massive contributors. Sweden would contribute considerably more AND their forces are fully NATO compatible (we still have a lot of Soviet era … Stuff.):
https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php
You will find Türkiye at 11, Sweden at 37, scroll down to 54 for Hungary (despite all of our Politicians´ rhetoric).
Fun facts:
Fidesz lawmakers blocked the last Tuesday’s (October 24) opposition proposal to schedule a vote on Membership
As part of the Membership approval negotiations, Türkiye received assurances from Sweden that Sweden would support Türkiye’s quest to join the European Union