Flag of Finland. File photoMOSCOW, May 21.Finnish parliament speaker Matti Vanhanen said Finland would «definitely» join NATO.Finland and Sweden handed in applications to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday.
Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliation»Yes, of course. Previous processes to join NATO took at least four months, and some more than a year Time will tell,» Vanhanen said in an interview with the public broadcaster YLE. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Ankara could not say yes to Finland and Sweden's membership in NATO because it could not believe their assurances of links with representatives of the banned Turkey PKK. If Turkey agrees, NATO, according to Erdogan, «will not be a security organization, but will become a place where there will be many representatives of terrorists.» Earlier, publications appeared that Turkey, in order to approve the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, demands that European countries lift restrictions on the export of weapons, include it in the program for the supply of the latest F-35 fighters, and lift US sanctions for the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems.
Finland is willing to pay dearly for joining NATO
