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Russia's invasion prompted Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership in May 2022. [1] Finland joined on 4 April 2023, and Sweden joined on 7 March 2024. [2] [3] [4] Ukraine applied for NATO membership in September 2022 after Russia proclaimed the annexation of its territory. [1]
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.
All members have militaries, except for Iceland, which does not have a typical army (but it does have a coast guard and a small unit of civilian specialists for NATO operations). Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states.
In NATO's new command structure all Nordic countries would fall under the U.S. based Joint Force Command Norfolk, which is oriented to the North Atlantic defence, instead of new members Finland ...
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 ...
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 ...
In March 2023, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's party, Fidesz, announced that they support Finland and Sweden's applications for NATO membership. [4] In March 2023, Hungary approved Finland's membership process but did not approve Sweden's membership process. [5] In June 2023, Hungary announced that it was postponing Sweden's membership ...
The addition of Finland and Sweden to the Western military alliance would not only expand NATO territory by 300,000 square miles toward the northeast — in blatant defiance of Putin’s demands ...