Like all NATO members, Finland will benefit from the collective security guarantee that an attack on one is considered an attack on all.
BRUSSELS — The blue-and-white Finnish flag rises outside NATO headquarters Tuesday afternoon, making Finland a member and doubling Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance.
NATO has said that it has no immediate intention to step up its presence in Finland. Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the last year. The Finnish flag rising between the French and the Estonian in a ceremony scheduled for 1330 GMT will complete the fastest accession process in the organization’s recent history . last year, Finland applied to join NATO in May 2022. Neighboring Sweden also applied, but its accession process will take longer.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko warned that Moscow would bolster its own forces “in case of deployment of forces of other NATO members on the territory of Finland.” “They have trained and built a large army over many years and maintain that high level of readiness. Finland is also a country with extremely high level of resilience, of preparedness throughout the whole society,” Stoltenberg said.
NATO’s top civilian official said he will then invite Finland to hand over its own signed documents, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen will attend the flag-raising ceremony along with Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.
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