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NATO Secretary General: Sweden's ascension to the alliance makes NATO stronger

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the inclusion of Sweden into the alliance after a slow process of approval from some member states.

Avi Woolf
Avi Woolf
MAR 7, 2024 13:28
1 min read
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Swedish and NATO flags. (Photo: Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Shutterstock)

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg celebrated Sweden's official ascension to the military alliance on X/Twitter today (Thursday), saying that he looked forward to raising Sweden's flags alongside the flags of other allies at NATO HQ on Monday:

Sweden thus joins with Finland, who joined the alliance last year, in abandoning a robust stance of neutrality which they adhered to in WWII and the Cold War, and triggered by Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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