ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece totally helps Sweden’s and Finland’s plans to be a part of NATO, its international minister stated on Saturday.
“Greece has wonderful relations with these two international locations, that are additionally members of the European Union,” Nikos Dendias stated in Berlin the place he’ll attend an off-the-cuff NATO ministers assembly.
“The Greek aspect has a really clear stance (on the matter), we’re ready to welcome Sweden and Finland to the NATO household, we consider they’ve a lot to supply,” he stated.
A day after Russia’s northeastern neighbour Finland dedicated to making use of to be a part of NATO, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde stated membership for her nation would have a stabilising impact and profit international locations across the Baltic Sea.
Joining the 30-nation Western navy alliance would finish the neutrality the 2 states maintained all through the Cold War. It would additional the enlargement of NATO that Russian President Vladimir Putin stated his invasion of Ukraine aimed to forestall.
Moscow has stated Finland’s entry to NATO poses a risk to which it would reply, but it surely has not specified how.
(Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; Editing by Mark Potter)
