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Finland has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 4 April 2023. [1]In the aftermath of World War II, following the formation of NATO in 1949 and throughout the Cold War, Finland maintained a position of neutrality, in what became known as Finlandization, in the face of its often complicated relations with the Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, NATO used radar facilities in Malta, which, like other non-NATO member European states, has generally cooperative relations with the organization. [267] When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, the Mediterranean island of Malta was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom, one of the treaty's original signatories.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Finland shares a more than 800-mile border with Russia, which views any expansion of NATO toward its territory as a grave security threat. Sweden sits on Finland's western flank and is also ...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic moment and move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks, after ...
Finland and Sweden joined 14 NATO allies in a June 6, 2022, military exercise on the Baltic Sea. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty ImagesNo one should be surprised by the decision made by the ...
The application for membership was formally submitted on 18 May, [13] and after all 30 NATO members ratified the application, Finland became the 31st member of NATO on 4 April 2023. [14] The notion of "end of Finlandization" has been applied both to the changing circumstances resulting from the end of the Cold War and to Finland's decision to ...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg received formal applications from Finland and Sweden to join the U.S.-led military alliance. The Nordic countries' move follows Russia's invasion of Ukraine ...