Turkey will block final publication of a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and P...
FILE PHOTO: Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends a news conference, a day ahead of the first meeting of the new Syrian Constitutional Committee at the Untied Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Two days after a NATO summit at which alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg announced that Turkey had withdrawn its objection, allowing plans to move forward, Cavusoglu said Ankara agreed to the next step in the process but had not given final approval. “That plan will not be published until our plan is published too,” Cavusoglu said, describing Ankara’s move at the summit as a gesture to its allies. “It would not be fair for some countries to not approve our plan while at the same time backing a plan for others,” he said.
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