Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström could not confirm after a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that his country will complete its accession to NATO in 2023, but said there was progress.

According to him, he doesn't want to set a specific time frame.

Once all the conditions of the trilateral memorandum for Sweden and Finland to fulfill Turkey's package of requirements for Ankara to support their NATO accession process are fulfilled, we will see how the ratification of Finland and Sweden's accession protocol] by the Turkish parliament happens, the Swedish minister said on arrival Wednesday at the second session of the NATO ministerial meeting in Bucharest, when asked by journalists if he expects his country to be able to join NATO in 2023.