by russia s invasion of ukraine. in response, moscow says the finland nato alliance increases the risk of conflict and that it will strengthen its military presence in the region. the head of the military alliance, jens stoltenberg, is calling finland s accession a historic moment. here s what he said earlier. in a few hours we will welcome finland as the slst member of our alliance. this will make finland safer and nato stronger. on this very day in 1949 the washington treaty, nato s founding treaty, was signed in washington, and it s hard to imagine a better way of celebrating our anniversary than to have finland becoming a full member of the alliance. nato s foreign ministers meet at a pivotal time for our security. we see that president putin s war of aggression against ukraine grinds on. we will meet in the nato ukraine commission with the foreign minister where we will address how to sustain and ramp up support from nato allies to ukraine. both the urgent needs, but als
we do, the command and structure, and maybe one day, you know, the kind of commitments that we give for the alliance. , kind of commitments that we give for the alliance- the alliance. let s talk about consensus the alliance. let s talk about consensus and the alliance. let s talk about consensus and political - the alliance. let s talk about l consensus and political parties within finland. 0f consensus and political parties within finland. of course, there is at the moment consensus for this, forjoining nato, for what it means militarily and what it means geopolitically, but do you think that support will continue, moving forward? , ., , ,, forward? historically speaking, there was not forward? historically speaking, there was not always forward? historically speaking, i there was not always consensus. forward? historically speaking, - there was not always consensus. in there was not always consensus. in the years before the war in ukraine, actually we had a polarisation b