The foreign minister believed that Finland’s “somewhat unexpected” entry into NATO this Tuesday was prompted by Helsinki’s desire to find “a safe haven” in the face of the threat posed by the Kremlin .
“Finland’s accession is due to the simple fact that NATO [Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte] be a haven for countries that feel threatened and that explains the expansion of NATO in recent years”insisted João Gomes Cravinho in a short statement to journalists at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, Belgium.
As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in the morning, the head of Portuguese diplomacy considered this Tuesday “a historic day” and underlined that Helsinki’s accession “is something unexpected, to the extent that a year and a half ago it was not even on the agenda of the Finnish political agenda”.
“[A adesão] was provoked by the invasion of Ukraine,” he added, adding that Finland’s desire to join the Atlantic Alliance “is one of the manifestations of what is a geopolitical transformation” taking place around the world due to the invasion of the Russian Federation.
The formalization of Finland’s accession to NATO takes place on the same day as the Atlantic Alliance’s 74th anniversary.
Portugal, United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy are part of NATO, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and now Finland.
Source: DN
