to be the 6th to general, that the wall comes filled on fully into the natal family. welcome to the alights, threatening of finland will now deliver his address. met no, depending on that i found by hawkins ballard. secretary turned around and stalked edburg. dear gents. ministers. excellency's, ladies and gentlemen, philip has said today become the 31st a member of nato. the era of the military non alignment in our history has gone to an end,

a new era big. it's each country maximize, he has its own security. so does finland. nato membership, it strengthens our international position and room for maneuver. as a partner, we have already long, actively participated in nato activities as an ally finance will contribute to nato's collective. if you tara's and defense membership of the alliance, it provides security for finland fealand to on the other hand, to provide security for the las finance committee to to the security of all nato member states will be a reliable ally that strengthens regional stability.

finance members he'd be, is not targeted against anyone, nor does he chains, the foundations or objectives of he and lance. foreign and security policy feel ideas so stable and for a deductible note, a country that seeks peaceful resolution of disputes, the friendship of st. values that are important to finland will continue to guide our foreign policy or so in the future. nato membership that does not change everything. but to being a no, i requires feed on to adopt new ways of thinking. and some changes in legislation. i spelled a lot has already been done for years. we have developed our nato gum,

but the ability there's still consider up a work ahead to integrate finland, so defense as part of nato's common defense. the finance, the defense forces are facing new demands and china and cheese to which we must respond. at the same time, it is clear that finance most significant contribution to nato's collective deterrence. sandiv has, is built on the security antithesis of our own territory. in this respect, the finland, phineas concept of comprehensive security, retain seats value. but we no longer do of this work alone. last, you feel not applied to join nato together with sweden. as i have

a stressed finance membership is not complete without that of sweden. our persistent efforts for a rapids at swedish members, it will continue. i look forward to seeing sweden join us as the 32nd member at the bill, news summits in july to add oper. i want to thank you, mr. secretary, general. dear. yes, and your people, your help has been very important to you have been packing us every moment to all this procedure. we really gave a lot of value to that and to our partners. thank you.

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this concludes this has been the ceremony of, of the official ceremony poor a score, finland joining nato, taking place across in brussels at nato headquarters. we just heard the finished national anthem as the finished flag was raised for the very 1st time at nato headquarters. ah, finland becomes the 31st country to join to become a member of nato. ah, our correspond, terry schultz is on the scene there standing just outside nato headquarters. let's cross over to her now. terry nate, this has been applied to join nato last may in may of 2022, a following russia's invasion of ukraine. it, that really hasn't been very long just 11 months, but it's been a tense, 11 months with that war raging in ukraine. there must be a sense of relief among native leaders there today. that's right,

finished president saline. mr. was asked earlier if he felt relieved and, and he said, yes, i read that the process that what was bumpy, of course not as bumpy for finland as it continues to be for sweden, but as long as finland and sweden had a tandem bed at applying together finland was also held back by, especially the turkish disdain for sweden and, and the arguments that turkey has that sweden is too soft on, especially kurdish militant groups that reside there in sweden, etc. but i did just a few weeks ago, nato decided that it was in its interest to split the bids. finland agreed to do so to the regret of many in sweden. and that's why we see the finished flag being raised today. but without the swedish one, we heard the finish. president terry suggest that sweden may join nato in july. he says he's looking forward to that happening at the building a summit. is that her isn't widely expected. you'd have to ask

anchor i if that's going to happen, of course, that's what they say because they want to keep the pressure on the turkish president to send that vote to the parliament on sweden. but he, i took a president as a primary to one, has given no assurances that he'll do that. in fact, he and his government continue to say that they do not believe that sweden deserves to be in nato. so there's a lot of diplomacy to be done between now and the delay summit in vilnius, but i think you'll hear nato officials continue to say that they expect that as a way to keep pressure on on gra, just looking at the, the gathering their today. terry, of course we had the foreign ministers of the $31.00 countries represented in nato . now gathering there, we saw antony blinking, the secretary of state for the united states. so we also saw the turkish foreign minister very close up front on all that. what did you make of the stage management of that event there today and the various personalities? was there a sense of tension or more unity?

i think that when it comes to the finish membership, once the turks decided it was fine for finland to go ahead. they threw their weight behind it and, and alls grand, but i can tell you that finland is going to be pressing turkey as well. now to let sweden in. so there are certainly going to be a lot of bilaterals with turkish foreign minister shopping show lou here at nato headquarters. i know that the swedes are going to have a talk with him. try to get some more clarity on when turkey may be ready to drop its opposition. you have nato secretary general young stoughton berg and the swedes saying they believe they have done everything they pledge to anchor to do at the last summit in madrid. and that now there should be nothing more holding up the swedish bid. terry, thank you very much. that was our course monetary sholtes there just outside nato headquarters in brussels on the day that nato has officially welcome finland as it 31st member. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here at dw news. thanks for

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