Poland: We will help Sweden and Finland if attacked before joining NATO

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, Polish Prime Minister Matthias Murawski said today (Thursday) that he would help Sweden and Finland if they were attacked before joining NATO.

“I see the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO as an important signal for strengthening security in Europe,” he told the conference. I want to make it clear that in the event of an attack on Sweden or Finland during their accession process, Poland will come to their aid.

The Polish prime minister claims that Finland and Sweden may attack NATO as an excuse to join NATO, while experts say there is no real threat to Sweden or Finland. Russia has repeatedly said that the two countries’ accession to NATO will not increase its security.

Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO on Wednesday. These requests must be considered by the 30 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Turkey has already raised objections. The President of Croatia, as the second NATO member after Turkey, announced his opposition to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, and the path for the two European countries to join the alliance became more difficult.

If the differences are resolved and the accession talks go well, the two European countries can join NATO within a few months. This process usually takes 8 to 12 months, but NATO wants to accelerate the process, given what it calls Russia’s threat to Nordic countries.

The governments of Finland and Sweden announced on Sunday their decision to join NATO, which has opened a new front in the confrontation between Russia and the West; As one of the Scandinavian countries, Finland has a thousand kilometers of border with Russia and is the first country to share a border with Russia that joins NATO.

Russian officials have repeatedly warned Helsinki and Stockholm that they would face serious consequences if they joined NATO, and that Russia would deploy its nuclear weapons on the eastern border if such an issue arose and posed a threat from Russia. .

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