Finland expects little progress on NATO membership by Turkey's May elections. Ankara refuses to ratify the application of Helsinki, as well as another Scandinavian country - Sweden. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto announced the expectation of the aforementioned progress for the Finns, Bloomberg reports..

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The key end term is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders' summit in Vilnius in mid-July, and if there is no progress until then, " on Thursday.

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Turkey and Hungary are the only two of the 30 NATO members that have yet to ratify applications.. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan refused to sign Sweden's membership, and Ankara said its main problem is that it considers indecisiveness the lack of Sweden's intention to start reprisals against the Kurds (in particular the Kurdistan Workers' Party - ed.. ), whom Ankara considers terrorists.

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Answering the question of what will lead this problem out of the impasse, Niinisto said that "