Finland will become a member of NATO on Tuesday, completing a historic security policy shift triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while neighbor Sweden is kept in the waiting room
The military alliance will welcome Finland as its 31st member in a flag-raising ceremony at NATO headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels, attended by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and government ministers.
But Russia's recent invasion of another neighbour, Ukraine, which began in February 2022, prompted Finns to seek security under the umbrella of NATO's collective defence pact, which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all. Finland's flag will then be raised outside NATO headquarters alongside those of the alliance's 30 other member countries before a gathering of NATO foreign ministers.on Monday it would strengthen its military capacity in its western and northwestern regions in response to Finland joining NATO.
"We would like to see if we can integrate our airspace surveillance more, so we can use radar data from each other's surveillance systems and use them collectively," Major General Jan Dam, commander of the Danish air force, told Reuters. Finland and Sweden had said they wanted to join NATO "hand in hand" to maximise their mutual security but that plan fell apart as Turkey refused to move ahead with Stockholm's bid.
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