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Should Finland decide to apply for NATO-membership, alone or with neighbouring Sweden, the country hopes that the application process would be completed "as fast as possible," says Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
Finland and Sweden will be able to join NATO quickly should they decide to ask for membership in the Western military alliance, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
Polls have found that a majority of Swedes and Finns are currently in favour of joining the military alliance, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving public support.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson says Sweden "should join NATO" as she questions whether the Nordic country's longstanding policy of military non-alignment remains appropriate with Russia's invasion of Ukraine "undermining the European security order that Sweden builds its security on." SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US would "strongly support" a NATO application by Sweden or Finland. "The United states would strongly support the NATO application by either Sweden or Finland should they choose to formally apply to the alliance," Blinken tells reporters after NATO foreign ministers met in Berlin. SOUNDBITE of Antony Blinken
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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