Finland will join NATO on Tuesday - Stoltenberg

[April 03, 2023]  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finland will join NATO on Tuesday, a step that will make Finland safer and the alliance stronger, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends a news conference before a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium April 3, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

"We will raise the Finnish flag for the first time here at NATO headquarters. It will be a good day for Finland's security, for Nordic security and for NATO as a whole," he told reporters in Brussels.

"Sweden will also be safer as a result."

(Reporting by Sudip Kar Gupta, Sabine Siebold and Andrew Gray; Editing by Alison Williams)

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