The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, May 12.The statements by the President and Prime Minister of Finland on joining NATO are a radical change in the country's foreign policy, Moscow will react according to the situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.Finland should immediately apply for joining NATO, according to a joint statement by President and Prime Minister Sauli Niinistö and Sanna Marin.The history of NATO expansion «The statement by Finnish President Sauli Niiniste and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin today in favor of Finland joining NATO represents a radical change in the country's foreign policy,» the statement said. «We will react according to the situation,» the Russian Foreign Ministry noted. NATO will cause serious damage to bilateral Russian-Finnish relations, maintaining stability and security in the Northern European region,” the diplomatic department stressed. «, to create another flank for a military threat to our country. But why would Finland turn its territory into a line of military confrontation with the Russian Federation, while losing independence in making its own decisions, history will judge,» the Foreign Ministry added.
DWN: but «Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both military-technical and other in order to stop the threats to its national security that arise in this regard,» the department noted. «Entering NATO will also be a direct violation of international legal obligations of Finland, first of all, the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, which provides for the obligation of the parties not to enter into alliances or participate in coalitions directed against one of them,» the Foreign Ministry said. In addition, the statement says that Finland's entry into NATO contradicts the 1992 Treaty between Russia and Finland on the foundations of relations. «However, given the current indifference of the collective West to international law, such behavior has become the norm,» the department.
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