“Good to see Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu again after our discussions on earthquake recovery last month in Türkiye,” Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto wrote on Twitter.

“We welcome Türkiye’s decision to ratify Finland’s NATO accession and encourage Türkiye to ratify Sweden’s accession soon,” Haavisto added.

For his part, Çavuşoğlu said that he congratulated our new ally Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto in Brussels for their accession to NATO,

Earlier on Tuesday, Finland officially became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with a signing ceremony in Brussels. (ILKHA)