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    Joe Biden “It's a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I am working on a deal to end the fighting and build a lasting and durable peace. Leadership is about fighting through the most intractable problem. It's about channeling anger, frustration and heartbreak to find a solution. It's about doing what you believe is right, even when it's hard and lonely.” 3 hours ago
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    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “There are prospects [for a new Ukrainian counteroffensive]. First and foremost we need to stabilise the situation at the line of contact. As you can see, it is not stable. I would say this: it's their turn now. They need to be stopped, and we will stop them. Then we need the appropriate staffing for the brigades so that they can take the next counteroffensive step.” 22 hours ago
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    Giorgi Revishvili “Despite the Georgian Dream having the majority to override the veto, it was important for the president to make the move. The president rightfully said how it [foreign agent's law] is a Russia law and contradicts all of European standards. There is also a fundamental shift in the political landscape with the younger generation becoming increasingly involved in politics. The youth is the driving force behind these protests.” 23 hours ago
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Alexander Grushko
Alexander Grushko

“We will strengthen our military potential in the western and northwestern direction. In the event that the forces and resources of other NATO members are deployed in Finland, we will take additional steps to reliably ensure Russia's military security.”

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
03 Apr 2023 2 3
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Valery Gerasimov
Valery Gerasimov

“The system of mobilisation training in our country was not fully adapted to the new modern economic relations. So I had to fix everything on the go. Military reforms announced mid-January could be adjusted to respond to security threats. Today, such [security] threats include the aspirations of the North Atlantic Alliance to expand to Finland and Sweden, as well as the use of Ukraine as a tool for waging a hybrid war against our country.”

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Chief of Russia’s military general staff
23 Jan 2023 6 2
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

“With Sweden and Finland, we don't have the problems that we have with Ukraine. They want to join NATO, go ahead. But they must understand there was no threat before, while now, if military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, we will have to respond in kind and create the same threats for the territories from which threats towards us are created. Everything was fine between us, but now there might be some tensions, there certainly will. It's inevitable if there is a threat to us.”

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President of Russia
29 Jun 2022 3 3
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Jonah Hull
Jonah Hull

“This allows NATO to put forward a united front in the face of Russian aggression, and that is absolutely core and central to the aims of this summit - not just a united front but an expanded front with two new members.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist
28 Jun 2022 4 2
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“As long as Tayyip Erdogan is at the head of the Republic of Turkey, we cannot say 'yes' to countries that support terror joining NATO. They are not honest or sincere. We cannot repeat the mistake made in the past regarding countries that embrace and feed such terrorists in NATO, which is a security organization.”

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28 May 2022 3 2
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Garret J Martin
Garret J Martin

“The next step is likely to be a flurry of behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and international pressure, to convince Turkey to quickly remove the roadblock. Sweden and Finland will seek to placate Turkey, but we can also expect the US and the EU to play a leading role in this pressure campaign. After all, both have some leverage over Turkey, be it through [Washington's] sale of military equipment or the [EU's] provision of aid as part of the 2016 migration deal. The most likely outcome remains Finland and Sweden joining the alliance very soon. Erdogan is a transactional leader, and the costs of blocking the two Nordic countries - deeply angering Western allies - would far outweigh the benefits in terms of domestic support. Erdogan also briefly blocked in 2009 the nomination of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as NATO's secretary-general, before relenting after receiving a prize in a high-level appointment for a Turkish official in the alliance. Since the rest of the alliance is welcoming Finland and Sweden with open arms, there is clear political will to overcome this temporary roadblock.”

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Lecturer and co-director of the Transatlantic Policy Center at American University
24 May 2022 7 3
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Erdi Ozturk
Erdi Ozturk

“Turkey has every right to block Sweden and Finland's ascension to NATO. However, such a position would be costly as NATO members would likely approach Turkey as a problem child moving forward. It is hard to see Turkey's future position since it is mostly based on domestic political developments. We should remember that Erdogan has been doing these policy changes to win the next election.”

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Associate professor in politics and international relations at London Metropolitan University
24 May 2022 5 3
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Unless Sweden and Finland clearly show that they will stand in solidarity with Turkey on fundamental issues, especially in the fight against terrorism, we will not approach these countries' NATO membership positively.”

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Turkish President
21 May 2022 5 1
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“NATO expansion is only meaningful for us in proportion to the respect that will be shown to our sensitivities. So you won't give us back terrorists but you ask us for NATO membership? NATO is an entity for security, an organisation for security. Therefore, we cannot say 'yes' to this security organisation being deprived of security.”

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Turkish President
18 May 2022 4 1
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Alistair Shepherd
Alistair Shepherd

“There is an urgency to keep the time gap between applying to joining and actually becoming a member as short as possible for fear of Russia taking some form of action before the Article 5 security guarantee comes into force as they become members. The process will still take several months, and NATO as an institution will accept their applications at their summit at the end of June in Madrid. But then, every existing NATO member state must ratify Sweden and Finland's membership application. This will take some time and will vary depending on the rules in each member state. It is likely to be late 2022 at the earliest when this is complete.”

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Senior lecturer for European security at Aberystwyth University
18 May 2022 4 4
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Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov

“Finland and Sweden, as well as other neutral countries, have been participating in NATO military exercises for many years. NATO takes their territory into account when planning military advances to the East. So in this sense there is probably not much difference. Let's see how their territory is used in practice in the North Atlantic alliance.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
17 May 2022 5 2
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Mikhail Khodaryonok
Mikhail Khodaryonok

“You should not swallow informational tranquilizers. The situation, frankly speaking, will get worse for us. The desire to defend one's motherland in the sense that it exists in Ukraine - it really does exist there and they intend to fight to the last. The main thing in our business is have a sense of military-political realism: if you go beyond that then the reality of history will hit you so hard that you will not know what hit you. Don't wave rockets in the direction of Finland for goodness sake - it just looks rather funny. The main deficiency of our military-political position is that we are in full geopolitical solitude and - however we don't want to admit it - practically the whole world is against us - and we need to get out of this situation.”

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Russian military analyst and retired colonel
16 May 2022 4 3
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Sergei Ryabkov
Sergei Ryabkov

“They should have no illusions that we will simply put up with it. The general level of military tension will rise, predictability in this sphere will decrease. It is a shame that common sense is being sacrificed to some phantom provision about what should be done in this unfolding situation.”

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
16 May 2022 3 2
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Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

“Here absolutely needs to be security guarantees here. They need to stop supporting terrorist organizations. Swedish and Finnish bans on exporting of some of their defence sector goods to Turkey must end. Our stance is perfectly open and clear. This is not a threat, this is not a negotiation where we're trying to leverage our interests. This is not populism either. This is clearly about two potential member states' support for terrorism, and our solid observations about it, this is what we shared.”

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Turkish Foreign Minister
15 May 2022 3 1
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Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg

“Turkey made it clear that its intention is not to block membership. I am confident we'll be able to find common ground, consensus on how to move on membership issues.”

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Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
15 May 2022 3 5
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Alistair Shepherd
Alistair Shepherd

“Unsurprisingly, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been the key factor in pushing Sweden and Finland closer to applying for full membership of NATO. Russia's invasion has dramatically changed the political discourse in Sweden and Finland and also crucially public opinion.”

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Senior lecturer for European security at Aberystwyth University
15 Apr 2022 4 4
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Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev

“No sane person wants higher prices and higher taxes, increased tensions along borders, Iskanders, hypersonics and ships with nuclear weapons literally at arm's length from their own home. Let's hope that the common sense of our northern neighbours [Sweden and Finland] will win.”

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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman
14 Apr 2022 6 7
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Katharine AM Wright
Katharine AM Wright

“For any conditions made by [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to be realistic, they will need to have the buy-in of Ukrainians who have lived in the shadow of an increasingly aggressive neighbour for a long time and have now seen their worst fears come to fruition. A neutral Ukraine would no longer be a NATO partner, although other neutral states, notably Finland and Sweden, are NATO partners. Such a pathway to NATO membership, however unlikely it is to be fulfilled, will be a red line for Putin who views Ukraine differently. For Putin, Ukraine is part of an imagined 'Russian World' or community built on the markers of the Russian language, culture and a 'common glorious past' in a way Finland and Sweden are not, and this has been a driving motivation behind the decision to invade Ukraine. A neutral Ukraine would need to seek security ties outside of NATO to prevent a recurrence of an invasion, given Russia is the aggressor this would need to come from them, but Ukraine would likely look to other members of the UN Security Council [China, France, UK, US] to help uphold this.”

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Senior lecturer in international politics at Newcastle University
15 Mar 2022 10 3
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