NATO chief says Swedish alliance membership within reach

'We are hoping and looking for a positive decision next week,' Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said.

Stoltenberg said leaders of Sweden and Turkey would meet in Vilnius on Monday on the eve of the defence alliance's summit in the city later in the week with the goal being to iron out lingering obstacles toward Sweden becoming a NATO member.

Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership last year, abandoning policies of military non-alignment that had lasted through the decades of the Cold War as Russia's invasion of Ukraine threw Europe's security architecture into flux. "We are hoping and looking for a positive decision next week," Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters in Brussels.

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