Finnish Parliament Speaker Vanhanen said the country would “definitely” join NATO.
MOSCOW, May 21 – RIA Novosti. Finland will “absolutely” join NATO, the head of the Finnish parliament, Matti Vanhanen, said.
Finland and Sweden on Wednesday handed in applications from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to join the alliance.
In an interview with public broadcaster YLE, Vanhanen said: “Yes, absolutely. Previous NATO membership processes took at least four months, some more than a year. Time will tell.” said.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he could not believe Ankara’s assurances that it had ties to representatives of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is banned in Turkey. If Turkey accepts, NATO “will not be a security organization, it will be a place where terrorists will have a large number of representatives,” according to Erdogan. Earlier, publications appeared in which Turkey demanded that European countries lift restrictions on arms exports, include them in the procurement program of the latest F-35 fighters, and remove Turkey in order to approve the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO. US sanctions on the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems.
Source: Ria
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