{"id":12259,"date":"2024-01-23T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12259"},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:34:43","slug":"nato-hungary-invites-sweden-to-negotiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/nato-hungary-invites-sweden-to-negotiate\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO: Hungary Invites Sweden to Negotiate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hungary has invited Sweden to negotiate on Stockholm\u2019s NATO accession bid, the Hungarian prime minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I sent an invitation letter to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson for a visit to Hungary to negotiate on Sweden\u2019s NATO accession,\u201d Victor Orban said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May 2022, abandoning their longstanding non-alignment policies, a decision spurred by Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine, which started in February that year.<\/p>\n<p>Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia, became a member of NATO on April 4, 2023, bringing the number of member states to 31.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s membership, however, is still pending ratification by member countries T\u00fcrkiye and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish officials have repeatedly stressed that it is up to Turkish lawmakers to decide to ratify Sweden\u2019s accession or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed Hungary has invited Sweden to negotiate on Stockholm\u2019s NATO accession bid, the Hungarian prime minister said on Tuesday. \u201cToday I sent an invitation letter to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson for a visit to Hungary to negotiate on Sweden\u2019s NATO accession,\u201d Victor Orban said on X. Sweden and Finland &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12261,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/12261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}