BREAKING: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has confirmed that Finland will join the alliance tomorrow.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a press conference ahead of the foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium Secretary general Jens Stoltenberg confirmed the Nordic country’s membership in a press conference in Brussels this morning.
‘We will raise the Finnish flag for the first time here at NATO headquarters,’ he told reporters gathered in NATO’s headquarters. ‘It will be a good day for Finland’s security, for Nordic security and for NATO as a whole. Sweden will also be safer as a result.’ Russia’s war in Ukraine pushed Finland and Sweden to apply to join NATO, and as such abandon decades of military non-alignment.
On Friday, Turkey’s parliament voted to ratify Helsinki’s membership bid, but kept Stockholm’s application on hold.Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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