{"id":1479,"date":"2022-08-28T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2022-08-28T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:04:46","slug":"czech-lower-house-approves-finland-swedens-nato-accession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/czech-lower-house-approves-finland-swedens-nato-accession\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech lower house approves Finland, Sweden&#8217;s NATO accession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Czech Republic&#8217;s lower house of parliament approved Finland and Sweden&#8217;s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it announced on Saturday,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chamber of Deputies is the second of the country&#8217;s two parliamentary bodies to give its approval, following the Senate&#8217;s decision. It now must be signed by the country&#8217;s president to complete the ratification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Nordic countries applied for membership into the military bloc in early July amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In order to be accepted, their accession documents must be ratified by all 30 NATO members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland and Sweden&#8217;s NATO bids were initially blocked by T\u00fcrkiye, which accused them of supporting anti-T\u00fcrkiye groups as they rejected Ankara&#8217;s extradition requests for suspects affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) and the Gulen Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early July, the two Nordic countries completed accession talks at NATO&#8217;s headquarters in Brussels and the 30 allies signed their accession protocols, which then go to all NATO countries for ratification, according to their national procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic&#8217;s lower house of parliament approved Finland and Sweden&#8217;s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it announced on Saturday,\u00a0Xinhua reports. The Chamber of Deputies is the second of the country&#8217;s two parliamentary bodies to give its approval, following the Senate&#8217;s decision. It now must be signed by the country&#8217;s president &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polise.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}