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the uk s backyard, scandinavia, it s important they got that protection alongside long-standing members such as norway and denmark. can you tell us any more about how this came to be. i think it was surprising to many watching all of this unfold how quickly there was an about face from turkey. can you tell us more about what concessions were made to turkey for this deal to happen? i think sweden made the main concession, which was at the outset of this, turkey faces quite a lot of terrorist threat, whether that s from isis, whether that s from al qaeda or the pkk, a kurdish terrorist group that s prescribed across europe. and turkey felt that sweden s counterterrorism suite of legislation was not sufficient enough to deal with that thread. and the new swedish government changed the legislation. and there was a point i used to be the government security minister and certainly sweden had a set of legislation that
releasing the as of stall leaders. saying publicly that ukraine should be a member of nato and saying that he and ukraine will agree to extend the black sea grain initiative even if putin doesn t and he ll use turkish warships to escort. so i would love to be a fly on the wall during the meeting between erdogan and putin when putin is supposed to visit turkey next month. it will be a doozy, but i think they will work it out. i think they will work it out. that s optimistic. i was reading the briefing with you earlier with jake sullivan. i m interested now that the turkey/sweden issue seems to be resolved satisfactory for the white house. nato membership for ukraine is always a significant issue at this summit. what do you see as the fault lines, the key deliverables they
lithuania. the nato secretary general is speaking. president biden expected to speak shortly. listen in. it s good to be here. thank you for continuing to deliver. as i made no press is not surprised that i ve been touting the fact that i think it s really important at this critical moment in the whole nato that you continue to lead nato. you re trusted. no one knows the situation that we re facing better than you do. and this historic moment, adding of finland and sweden to nato is consequential. and your leadership really matters. and we agree on the language that we ve proposed, that you proposed, relative to the future of ukraine being able to join nato. we re looking forward to a continued united nato.