Biden welcomes Sweden’s acceptance into NATO

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (R), as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg looks on prior to a meeting ahead of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania/Photo: AP

VILNIUS, LITHUANIA: President Joe Biden welcomed the news that Sweden will be admitted to NATO, overcoming objections from the last holdout in the security alliance, Turkey, on the eve of a major summit of the security bloc in Lithuania’s capital.