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Swedish Foreign Minister says dialogue ongoing with Turkey over NATO

FILE PHOTO: A Turkish flag flies next to NATO logo at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Sweden will continue its dialogue with Turkey to overcome objections raised by Ankara over its application to join the NATO alliance, Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Thursday.

"I think the discussions are continuing in a very positive way," Billstrom told reporters in Berlin after meeting his German counterpart.

Billstrom said discussions would continue on all levels and that he would go to Ankara shortly, while discussions between authorities in Sweden, Turkey and Finland would continue at the same time.

(Reporting by Simon Johnson in Stockholm and Miranda Murray in Berlin, editing by Stine Jacobsen)

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