Brusells: Senior representatives from Finland, Sweden, and Turkey will meet on July 6 in an effort to resolve Turkish concerns about Sweden's membership in the military alliance, according to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who announced the meeting on Wednesday.

The long-delayed vote in parliament to approve Sweden's NATO application will not take place until the autumn legislative session, according to Hungarian lawmakers. That would almost certainly mean that the Nordic country would not join in time for a significant summit on July 11–12.

The pre-summit meeting on July 6 is a last-ditch effort by Stoltenberg to include the Nordic nation as a member of NATO. It would be a highly symbolic event and another illustration of how Russia's conflict in Ukraine is encouraging nations to ally with the West.

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As he revealed the occasion for the meeting, Stoltenberg told reporters, "The time is now to welcome Sweden as a full member of NATO." Turkey, Sweden, and Finland, which joined NATO in April, will send their foreign ministers, intelligence chiefs, and security advisers to the talks in Brussels.

The expansion of NATO requires the consent of all members. Turkiye charges Sweden with being too lenient towards organisations Ankara claims pose a security threat, such as militant Kurdish organisations and individuals linked to a 2016 coup attempt.

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After Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Sweden and Finland abandoned their customary military neutrality to seek security under NATO's security umbrella out of concern that they might be targeted by Moscow.
Hungary is also taking its time approving Sweden's candidature, but it has never made public its specific objections. Once Turkiye lifts its objections, officials from NATO anticipate that it will do the same.

Agnes Vadai, a lawmaker from the Democratic Coalition party in Hungary, wrote on Facebook that the government of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party would not schedule a vote on Sweden's accession during the following week's final spring session.

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The vote would be postponed, according to a second Democratic Coalition lawmaker.

High-ranking Hungarian officials have said they support Sweden's membership while also making ambiguous demands of Stockholm as a condition for approval, which has led to a string of delays that have lasted for a year.