The Kremlin said on Monday that the possible accession of Sweden and Finland to the NATO military alliance would not bring stability to Europe.
“We have repeatedly said that the alliance remains a confrontational tool and its expansion will not bring stability to the European continent,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call when asked about the possibility of Sweden and Finland. join NATO.
A senior US State Department official said last week that the prospect of Finland and Sweden joining NATO was part of the discussion between foreign ministers in the military alliance in Brussels.
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NATO officials told the CNN that discussions on Sweden and Finland’s accession to the bloc have become extremely serious since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday that her country’s parliament is expected to discuss possible NATO membership “in the coming weeks”, adding that she expects those discussions to end “before midsummer”. .
“I think we will have very careful discussions, but we are also not taking longer than necessary in this process, because the situation is obviously very serious,” she said.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson did not rule out the possibility of joining in an interview with SVT in late March.
Sweden is carrying out a security policy review that is due to be completed by the end of May, and the government is expected to announce its position after that report, a Swedish official told CNN. They said their country could make its position public sooner, depending on when neighboring Finland does.
Finland’s ambassador to the US, Mikko Hautala, told CNN that the two nations are in close coordination with each other, but that each country will make its own independent decision.
*With information from CNN
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