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hello and welcome. finland will become the 31st member of nato later on tuesday. the application to join the western military alliance was prompted by the invasion of ukraine by russia, with which finland shares a long border. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has this story. finland only said it wanted to join nato last year. this afternoon, its flag will be raised at the headquarters in brussels, the quickest accession process in nato s recent history. president putin went to war against ukraine with a declared aim to get less nato. he wanted nato to remove our forces, our structures, from all allies that havejoined after 1997, meaning all allies in central and eastern europe. and he wanted nato to make it absolutely clear that nato s door was closed for any new membership. he s getting the exact opposite.
know your question was about sweden, of course, it is a great day to have finland as a member but we will ensure that also sweden will become a full member and we have to remember that all allies agree to invite them and all allies have signed the accession protocol and what remains when it comes to sweden is ratification in the parliaments and i am confident that will happen and i am confident that will happen and i am confident that will happen and i spoke with the swedish foreign minister and we agreed of course to ensure that finland becomes a full member and that accession process is not finalised for finland but we also agreed to restart the process, the meetings of the permanent mechanism of finland, sweden and turkey to ensure we can make progress on the ratification of sweden. sweden is in a much better
finland will become the 31st member of nato later on tuesday. the application to join the western military alliance was prompted by the invasion of ukraine by russia, with which finland shares a long border. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has this story. finland only said it wanted to join nato last year. this afternoon, its flag will be raised at the headquarters in brussels, the quickest accession process in nato s recent history. president putin went to war against ukraine with a declared aim to get less nato. he wanted nato to remove our forces, our structures, from all allies that havejoined after 1997, meaning all allies in central and eastern europe. and he wanted nato to make it absolutely clear that nato s door was closed for any new membership. he s getting the exact opposite. he s getting more nato presence in the eastern part of the alliance, and he s getting two new members,