Baltic foreign ministers support swift NATO accession for Finland, Sweden

• Published date: 17 May 2022
• Publication title: LETA

The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said in a statement they will do their best to ensure a swift NATO accession process for Finland and Sweden.

"We will do what it takes to assist our long-standing Nordic friends on their path to the upcoming Alliance of 32," the three ministers said in a joint statement on Monday. "We are committing ourselves to promote speedy ratification of the accession protocols once they are signed."

The three Baltic ministers said the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden "will also greatly increase the security of the Baltic Sea region, open new perspectives for Nordic-Baltic and other...