NATO Secretary General with the Prime Minister of Finland 🇫🇮 Sanna Marin, 28 FEB 2023

Statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, 28 February 2023.

🗣 | NATO Secretary General:

Thank you so much, Sanna. It's great to be back in Helsinki.

It's great to be back in this building and meet with the leaders of the Social Democratic Parties and the Trade Unions of the Nordic countries.
This is actually a forum I used to participate in myself for many, many years.

But now I'm here as Secretary General of NATO and of course we meet at a critical time for our security. President Putin's war against Ukraine grinds on and there are no signs that he's changing his plans. He wants to control Ukraine and he is not planning for peace, he's planning for more war. And therefore it is extremely important that we provide support to Ukraine.

I commend the strong support that Finland has provided to Ukraine. This makes a difference on the battlefield every day. Then I also meet, later on today, the President, Sauli Niinistö, and Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto, and in all my meetings today, I expect that the issue of Finnish and Swedish membership will be an important topic.

And as you all know, all NATO Allies made an historic decision to invite both Finland and Sweden to become members of the Alliance. We are making progress. A couple of weeks ago, I met with President Erdoğan and we agreed to have a meeting with Finland, Sweden, Türkiye in Brussels next week. My message is that both Finland and Sweden have delivered on what they promised in the trilateral agreement they made with Türkiye last June in Madrid.

So the time is now to ratify and to fully welcome both Finland and Sweden as members. Thank you.

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