View of StockholmBRUSSELS, Jan 24 Sweden does not intend to apply for NATO membership at this time, but will confirm to the Secretary General of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg his right to independently choose the line of ensuring his own security, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said before the start of the meeting in Brussels of the EU Foreign Ministers. On Monday, the meeting of the NATO Secretary General with the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Finland is to be held in Brussels. «Together with colleague from Finland, during a meeting with the NATO Secretary General, we will present our analysis of the situation, we will talk in more detail about what is important for Sweden and Finland, for example, that in any situation we should have the right to choose our own line of security… In we have no intention of requesting NATO membership at this time… This issue is not being considered at this time,» she said. called the condition for the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO
