@CharliAviless Posted April 3, 2023 Posted April 3, 2023 Finland will become NATO's 31st member on Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance announced. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the trigger for which this Nordic country, which shares a border with Russia, decided to apply for membership in the organization. "We will fly the Finnish flag for the first time here at NATO headquarters. It will be a good day for Finland's security, for Nordic security and for NATO as a whole," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. , in Brussels. "Sweden will also be safer as a result," he added. The country applied to join the organization in 2022, but its entry was delayed by reluctance from Turkey, which complained that Finland supported "terrorists". Sweden applied to join NATO at the same time as the Finnish government, but Ankara continues to block its entry over similar complaints. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the Swedish government of harboring Kurdish militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which the Ankara government views as terrorists, and allowing them to demonstrate on the streets of Stockholm. Any expansion of NATO needs the support of all its members. How Finland has prepared for decades for a potential conflict with Russia Finland, a country that shares a 1,340 km border with Russia and boasts one of the most powerful artillery arsenals in Western Europe, decided to abandon its neutrality and join the alliance in response to the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by from your neighbor. Although Sweden has no border with Russia, the war has also motivated Stockholm to opt for membership. One of NATO's fundamental principles is that of collective defense, which means that an attack on one member country is treated as an attack on all. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-65163112
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