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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".
March 7, 2024 at 11:55 AM. ... which serves as the treaty depositary for NATO. Sweden joining NATO was scarcely conceivable a little more than two years ago. The country remained neutral in both ...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed Sweden’s will become a member of the block now that all allies have approved its bid to join. “Sweden’s membership will make us all stronger ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Hungary's parliament approved Sweden's NATO accession on Monday, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic country whose neutrality lasted through two world wars and the ...
8 October – The government issues an update of the country's civil defence guidelines for the first time since 2018 to take into account Sweden's accession into NATO and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This remarkably long era of nonalignment is coming to a close as Sweden joins NATO. For the next two centuries, Sweden embraced a policy of neutrality, refusing to take sides in wars or join any ...
Sweden, along with Finland, which joined NATO last year, both abandoned long-standing military neutrality that was a hallmark of the Nordic states’ Cold War foreign policy after Russia invaded ...