Finland joins NATO in major blow to Russia

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 05, 2023 12:21 am

BRUSSELS: Finland became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow's war on Ukraine, which doubles the United States-led defense alliance's border with Russia.

Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland — and its neighbor Sweden — to drop decades of nonalignment.

SHOW OF HANDS North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference on the next meeting of North Atlantic Council foreign ministers at NATO’s headquarters in Belgium’s capital Brussels on Monday, April 3, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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