Biden Admin Remains ‘Confident’ Sweden & Finland Will Be Able To Join NATO Despite Pushback

Hungary has further delayed a vote on ratifying Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO. This time by two weeks. Are you concerned about this delay? Are you confident that Hungary at the end will accept expansion of NATO? And since Turkey says it's not ready to approve Sweden's membership in NATO, would President Biden support Finland's admission first before Sweden's? And one question on yesterday's meeting between us. Hang on before you do that, because I'm going to forget. So first of all, what we are confident is that Finland and Sweden are going to be great NATO allies. Two modern militaries, we know them well, we operate and train with them all the time. They're going to be welcome additions to the alliance.

The President remains confident that they're going to be NATO allies. Now we're also encouraged by the fact that there are still discussions going on between Turkey, Finland, and Sweden as well as with Hungary. We'll let those nations speak to the specifics of their concerns and the process, but the President is confident that these two countries deserve to be in NATO and will be in NATO. And as for your second question on the choreography, what matters to us is that both nations become NATO allies. And the Texas two-step that goes into doing that, that's not our main concern.