Finland becomes 31st NATO member after Turkey's approval

Category : International Published on: April 03 2023

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Turkey’s unanimous vote allowed Finland to become the alliance’s 31st member.
Finland will now be formally admitted into Nato at its next summit, taking place in July in Lithuania.
Finland is now set to become the seventh Nato country on the Baltic Sea, further isolating Russia's coastal access at St Petersburg and on its small exclave of Kaliningrad.
NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance established in 1949.
It was formed as a collective defense pact between North American and European nations to deter Soviet expansion and protect member states from potential Soviet aggression during the Cold War.
The founding members of NATO were the United States, Canada, and ten European nations including Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.