US President Biden held talks with visiting Swedish Prime Minister Christson at the White House on the 5th, reiterating the US support for Prime Minister of Sweden's accession to NATO. Promoting Sweden's entry into NATO as soon as possible was a key topic of discussion between Christson and the United States that day. Before the closed door talks between the teams of the two sides, Biden reiterated to Christson in the Oval Office of the White House that the United States fully supports Sweden to become a member of NATO. Sweden has the same values as NATO and will make the alliance more powerful after its "accession". Christson said that Sweden can make contributions to the overall security of NATO and thanked the United States for its strong support on Sweden's accession to NATO. The two sides also mentioned the consistency of the values and policy priorities of the two countries, including the provision of military and humanitarian assistance to Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Russian Ukrainian conflict. Although the Biden government expects Sweden to officially join NATO during the NATO summit held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, from 11 to 12 this month, the US media analysis believes that, due to the strong opposition of Türkiye, a NATO member, Sweden is unlikely to be allowed to "join the Treaty" in the short term. Reuters quoted a statement from the office of the President of President of Turkey as reporting that President of Turkey's President Erdogan said in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Rutte on the 5th that in recent months, the Government of Sweden allowed domestic forces sympathetic to Türkiye's Kurdish Workers' Party to "continue to organize demonstrations freely and praise terrorism" in the capital Stockholm, which wiped out Sweden's efforts to win Türkiye's consent to its accession to NATO. After the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis in February 2022, Sweden and Finland simultaneously applied to join NATO in May of the same year. Last July, representatives of 30 NATO member states signed a protocol for Finland and Sweden to join the treaty. According to regulations, NATO must accept new members with the unanimous consent of 30 member states. Finland was officially approved to join NATO on April 4 this year, but Türkiye and Hungary have not yet officially approved Sweden to join. (New News Agency)