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Finland and Sweden seek to join NATO but Russia issues a warning

Finland and Sweden seek to join NATO but Russia issues a warning

Russia denounced this Friday the efforts carried out by the West to include in the Atlantic Alliance Finland and Swedencountries known for their neutrality, and warned about the serious consequences that the entry of these countries into the NATO.

“It is clear that the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, which is above all a military bloc, would have serious political-military consequences, which would require a response from our country.”, stated the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, at a press conference.

The representative of Russian diplomacy pointed out that Moscow is aware of “the directed efforts of NATO and some member countries of the bloc, above all the United States, aimed at including Finland and also Sweden in the Alliance.”

In particular, he celebrated “The Finnish Government’s policy of military non-alignment as an important factor in ensuring security in Northern Europe and throughout the European continent”but found the “hands-on interaction” between Helsinki, Stockholm and the NATOwhich has grown lately.

“They have held NATO exercises, these countries have offered their territories to bloc exercises in the vicinity of the Russian borders, in which US forces imitated nuclear weapons attacks against a so-called equivalent adversary”he warned.

Zakharova stated that both Finland What Sweden have confirmed the principle of indivisibility of security in their capacity as members of the OSCE.

“The choice of ways to guarantee national defense and security is an internal and sovereign matter of each state”, Indian.

Source: Gestion

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