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Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, meet in Brussels at the NATO foreign ministers meeting. As Finland joins the military alliance, Ukraine is also pushing for eventual NATO membership, but Western diplomats say that remains a still distant prospect. IMAGES
The NATO flag flies in front of Finland's foreign ministry in Helsinki, as the country becomes becomes the 31st member of the US-led alliance. Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland to drop decades of non-alignment. IMAGES
Foreign Ministers of NATO countries pose for a group photo in Brussels as they hold a meeting the day after Finland officially joined the military alliance. IMAGES
Finland joins NATO: How important a step for Finland – and for the Alliance?
Finland has become the 31st member of NATO in a historic shift provoked by Moscow's war on Ukraine. The flag has now been raised at the allaince headquarters Last year, the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape,prompting Finland -- and its neighbour Sweden -- to drop decades of non-alignment. The Finnish President Sauli Niinisto has been meeting with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and head of Nato Yens Stoltenberg to make Finland's accession official. There will now be a debate on the defense spending that is set to begin. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Brussels Pierre Benazet tells us more about this historic moment for Finland, now official.
Finland's flag flies high for the first time at NATO headquarters, as the country officially joined the US-led defence alliance in a historic realignment of Europe's defences that drew an angry warning of "countermeasures" from the Kremlin. Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland -- and its neighbour Sweden -- to drop decades of military non-alignment. IMAGES
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