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On 17 May 2022, Ann Linde, Sweden's foreign minister, signed Sweden's application to join NATO. [54] [55] The following day, both countries' applications were formally submitted to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. [56] [57] The European Union announced its support for Finland and Sweden's NATO membership. [58]
Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of ... 2024 at 12:54 PM ... Biden and his NATO counterparts have vowed that Ukraine will join one day, too. Sweden’s membership had ...
Hungary’s parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Monday, ... 2024 at 7:36 PM. ... “Today is a historic day,” Kristersson said on X shortly after the vote ...
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 ...
20 February – Sweden donates its largest military aid package to Ukraine to date with a further $680 million in aid. [ 5 ] 26 February – Hungary 's parliament ratifies Sweden 's bid to join NATO .
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 ...
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]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken receives the NATO ratification documents from Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during a ceremony at the US State Department on March 7, 2024.