Swedish Foreign Minister Karel Lindh formally signed off on the country's application to join NATO on Tuesday, SVT reported.
Lindh said he expected Sweden's membership to take up to a year
Swedish Prime Minister Anders Andersson said On Monday that joining NATO was to strengthen his country's security and that of the world,
adding that Sweden planned to submit its application to join Finland in the next two or three days
But it is up to NATO member states to decide when the two countries can formally join the TREATY
The report of the Finnish parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on Finland's NATO membership has been completed
Monday's debate in the Finnish parliament on Finland's application to join NATO lasted 14 hours with more than 200 speeches.
Finland's parliament voted on Tuesday afternoon (local time) on the country's membership ceremony
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who is on a state visit to Sweden, will make the final decision on the application once it is approved by parliament
An overwhelming majority of Finnish parliamentarians reportedly believe joining NATO will improve Finland's security, as Sweden and Finland accelerate their bids to join the alliance
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The joint statement issued after the summit was held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Jian Organization
The group has a responsibility to ensure lasting peace in Eurasia said it was vital to reduce tensions in the region and reiterated his willingness to work with NATO to build practical cooperation
Before the conflict between Russia and Europe began, Putin made clear three conditions for NATO and one of them was that NATO's military deployment be restored to pre-1997
But NATO expansion is now moving forward and Russia is doing its best to keep Finland and Sweden at arm's length
I think for Finland and Sweden they actually wanted it to be much closer to the NATO military alliance in the West
So why was it that they were reluctant to join NATO in large part because they thought that if they pushed ahead with the motion to join NATO they were afraid that Russia would do it
But a lot of Russia's energy is tied up in Ukraine and Russia's performance on the battlefield seems to be as well, according to the Swedish assessment
It's not as powerful as what you're dealing with so in this case they they took the kind of action that they actually took on their own opportunity
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that Moscow sees the decision by Sweden and Finland to apply for NATO membership as nothing more than a geopolitical move to contain Russia
In an interview on the same day, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Finland and Sweden had applied for NATO membership under pressure from the United States
Zakharova did not say whether Russia would take any action
Both are close to Finland and Russian ships coming in and out of these two ports inevitably pass through the Finnish and Swedish coastlines
This leaves Russia's economic center completely exposed to NATO and after Finland and Sweden joined the alliance
The Baltic Sea is going to be NATO's internal sea and NATO's control of the Baltic Sea is going to be greatly strengthened
and two of Russia's most important regions St. Petersburg and Fetikalingrad are on the Baltic sea coast
Their accession will also extend NATO's reach further into the Arctic, which will become increasingly important economically and geostrategically in the future
NATO's strategic encirclement and deterrence of Russia extends further from the west to the north and I think the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO will eliminate any buffer zone between NATO and Russia
Ah so I think in this case obviously there is more of this conflict around this so-called geopolitical boundary and there is a serious lack of trust between the two sides
The lack of channels and channels of communication the lack of negotiations the lack of mechanisms to de-escalate the conflict so I think the risk to European security in this situation would be
But there is disagreement within NATO about whether Sweden and Finland should join and Turkey has made it clear that it is against it
Sweden's foreign ministry said earlier on Monday that senior representatives from Sweden and Finland planned to travel to Turkey to lobby for their NATO membership bid
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the same day again expressed opposition to Finland and Sweden to join THE NATO position erdogan accused the two countries of not taking a clear anti-terrorism stance
Even describing Sweden as a terrorist incubator and claiming that there are terrorists in its parliament suggests that the two countries need not bother to send people to Turkey to sleep
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BC because I don't think Turkey's attitude will actually have a substantial impact on the two countries' accession to the treaty
This is a way for Turkey to try to use this incident to raise the price and that includes getting some of the benefits of this exchange from NATO including from Sweden
The White House on Monday said it was aware of Turkey's comments on joining THE alliance with Finland and Sweden
But the U.S. believes NATO will reach a consensus Sweden's defense minister will meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Austin at the Pentagon on Wednesday
The two sides will discuss the situation in Russia and the process of Sweden's accession to NATO
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Wait for me, "Austrian Foreign Minister Jens Schallenberg said Monday in Brussels, ACCORDING to RT
Austria is not a member of NATO and will not seek membership in the future
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