In the latest updates, Sweden and Finland mutually present their applications for NATO participation on Wednesday, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said. NATO participation will reinforce security in Sweden as well as in the Baltic Sea area, she added at a public interview on Tuesday with visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinisto.
Submitting joint applications with Finland “implies that we can add to security in northern Europe,” Andersson said. Security in the two nations is firmly connected, she said, and close participation has been vital.
“Our joint NATO application is a sign that we are joined for what’s to come.” Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde marked the country’s NATO participation application on Tuesday morning.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Moscow would answer if NATO somehow happened to send military framework on the regions of Finland or Sweden. Niinisto visited Sweden from May 17 to 18.
Andersson and Niinisto are then booked to meet with US President Joe Biden in Washington on Thursday, as indicated by the Swedish government.
Meanwhile, Germany and US have extended their full help and reported measures to reinforce security in the Baltics. German chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the German military will perform war drills with the two countries.
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“We will strengthen our military cooperation, particularly in the Baltic Sea locale and through joint activities. The two nations can continuously depend on our help, particularly in this exceptionally unique circumstance,” Scholz was cited as saying by Swedish news organization The Local.
Helsinki and Stockholm shed their military non-arrangement status expecting that they could be confronting Russian hostility following Russian president Vladimir Putin’s conflict on Ukraine.
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