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Sweden must join Nato soon to ward off Russian threat, says defence minister
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Sweden must become a full member of the Nato military alliance “as fast as possible” to ward off the threat from Russia, the country’s defence minister has said, as impatience builds in Stockholm over its slow path to accession.
Pål Jonson said that he was unable to put a timeline on the completion of Sweden’s Nato approval process buthe was confident that Turkey and Hungary, the two remaining members left to ratify the country’s membership, would do so eventually.
Sweden submitted its Nato application at the same time as Finland in May 2022, both countries renouncing their military neutrality after Vladimir Putin’s full invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking from Helsinki, where he addressed the Hanakäräjät defence and security policy forum on Tuesday, Jonson said there was “strong support” for Sweden’s application among Nato allies.
In July, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, agreed to forward Sweden’s accession protocol to parliament as soon as possible after talks with the Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson.
“We are safer now than we were before we sought Nato membership through security assurances we have received from the US, the UK, Germany, France and the other Nordic countries.”
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