Sweden’s ruling party is ready to issue a statement on May 15 that will pave the way for an application for membership in the alliance.
Sweden’s ruling party is ready to support the country’s accession to NATO. The application, which is now expected, will pave the way for an application for membership in the alliance. This was reported by Reuters.
Social Democrats Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson held an internal debate last week about abandoning long-standing opposition to NATO membership.
As the party leadership said it would make a decision on Sunday, support for joining the alliance would have a large majority in the Swedish Riksdag because most of the opposition already supports the decision.
A cross-party parliamentary review on Friday showed that joining NATO would strengthen Sweden’s national security and help stabilize the Nordic and Baltic regions.
Finland’s president and prime minister on Thursday firmly pledged their country to join the Western alliance “without delay,” boosting Sweden’s momentum.
After the Finnish leadership announced their determination to join, the Kremlin said it was a hostile move that threatened Russia and did not explicitly warn of “replacement measures, both military-technical and otherwise.”
Just a few months ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, joining NATO was a distant hope. But the war forced Sweden and Finland to rethink their security needs and begin to seek security in an alliance with which they had moved away from the long years of the Cold War. Russia’s aggression undermines long -standing security policies and has caused a wave of public support for NATO membership in both countries.
Sweden has been rebuilding its military over the past decade, especially after Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014. In particular, the country purchased the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system and deployed troops to the Baltic island. of Gotland.
It was previously reported that the Russian Foreign Ministry was threatening Finland because of NATO.
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