President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin say NATO membership would strengthen Finland’s security and that the Nordic country would in turn strengthen the military alliance.
Euskaraz irakurri: Finlandiak zortzi hamarkadako lerrokatze eza hautsi eta NATOn sartzea babestu du
the chairman of Finland, Sauli Niinistö and the Prime Minister, the Social Democrat Sanna Marin, have their support this thursday at enter of the Scandinavian country in the NATO, in a historic decision breaks with more than eight decades of non-alignment
“Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay. We hope that in the coming days the steps left at the national level necessary to make this decision will be taken swiftly,” the two leaders said in a joint statement.
According to Niinistö and Marin, NATO membership would strengthen Finland’s security and the Nordic country, in turn, would strengthen the military alliance.
Both leaders had kept their stance secret until now so as not to influence public debate about NATO, which had been reactivated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We needed time for Parliament and society as a whole to establish their positions on this. Also to establish close international contacts with NATO and its member states, as well as with Sweden. We wanted to give the discussion the necessary space ,” they have said. indicated.
This decisive step gives a strong impetus to the accession process in Finland, as security and defense policy is a shared competence of the president and the executive.
Now all that remains is the rest of the coalition government and the Eduskunta (Parliament) to give their official support to formalize the application for membership, something that could happen in the coming days, given the broad consensus that exists between the political parties.
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Source: EITB
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