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Blinken noted Sweden’s “200-year-old policy of non-alignment” – which stretches back to the Napoleonic Wars – and the Swedish population’s lack of appetite to join the alliance before ...
Sweden has been a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 7 March 2024. [1]Before applying for NATO membership, Sweden had maintained a policy of neutrality in military affairs since the Napoleonic Wars, after which Sweden adopted a policy of "non-alignment in peace and neutrality in war".
Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality and centuries of broader non-alignment with major ...
The White House said that having Sweden as a NATO ally “will make the United States and our allies even safer.” "NATO is the most powerful defensive alliance in the history of the world, and ...
On 3 August 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Finland and Sweden's accession bids to join NATO. [3] U.S. President Joe Biden approved the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden in August 2022. [4] Sweden's accession into NATO was finalized on 7 March 2024. [5] The United States has observer status with the regional BEAC and CBSS.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance stands ready to move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks.
NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its next-to-last hurdle when Turkey’s parliament gave its go-ahead to let the Nordic country into the alliance. All ...