NATO: Hungary to ratify Sweden's accession in Feb

STORY: Hungary became the last NATO country still to give the legal green light to Swedish membership after the Turkish parliament ratified Stockholm's application on Tuesday (January 23) and President Tayyip Erdogan signed off on the approval on Thursday (January 25).

All of NATO's 31 members have to ratify an applicant country's accession before it can join the alliance.

Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had assured him in a telephone call this week and that he supports Sweden's accession.