Hungary clears way for Swedish bid to join NATO

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Sweden’s Pathway to Nato membership is now clear hungary’s Parliament has formally approved its application to join here is the parliament passing that crucial vote a little earlier today the approval of lawmakers came after prime minister Victor Orban told them Sweden’s admission would improve hungary’s security admission to Nato requires

Unanimous acceptance by all members and Hungary was the last hold out Sweden will be the alliance’s 32nd member and second to join since Russia invaded Ukraine 2 years ago neighbor finland’s ratification happened in April of last year for more on this we have reached Alexandra anell in Stockholm she’s a

Member of parliament for the moderate party she’s also a member of Sweden’s committee on defense so welcome thank you for joining us we do appreciate your time today hello thank you for calling me in Sweden in these very happy times a very happy time so that’s what I’m hoping to

Speak a little bit more about just to start is your reaction to the fact that Hungary has finally given the green light to Sweden’s NATO application how are you feeling very happy and we just say finally this is really great for Sweden it’s great for the Nordic countries and

Also for the whole Europe of course so it’s really great and and talk a little bit about how in your view this is going to land in Russia do you think that this is a blow to Vladimir into Russia and their military um I think of course this will

Affect them somehow but as we wanted to join NATO because it’s the biggest peace organization in the world I think uh this will be really great for all of us I’m wondering as well about whether or not there are any concerns here about uh some sort of retaliation because

Certainly we have heard from Putin in the past uh complaining about NATO’s expansion uh even using that at times as a justification for the war in Ukraine is that something at all that that Sweden is concerned about any sort of possible retaliation well of course uh as we can

See around us right now when in war in Europe of course we have to be aware of everything and we can see a lot of cyber attacks all the time and so on so of course we have to be prepared and we have to be aware of what what can

Happen there have been a lot of delays here and like I was saying a little bit earlier Hungary had been the last hold out does this leave sort of a bad taste in everyone’s mouth in terms of the relationship between Sweden and Hungary I know that hungary’s Air Force for

Example does depend on fighter jets coming from Sweden so there is a relationship here between these two countries where is that relationship now left I think it’s a good cooperation we have to respect each country’s process and now they have finally said yes and we’re very happy for that you’re very

Happy for that is there anything in particular that that Sweden had to promise to Hungary in order for all of this to to happen to go through today not that I know about it’s uh it’s the same process in every country we are of course very grateful to Canada who

Was the first country to ratify us but uh in some other countries it took some longer time um so I don’t think we have promised anything what sort of contribution do you think Sweden uh will now be able to make to Nato I think we can contribute with a lot of

Course high technology tech technology and also uh our defense industry is very good in Sweden but we also have something in common with of course Canada is our um forces is very used to to practice in the Arctic regions and that’s not very common in all many NATO

Countries so I think that is also very good for us and just finally here right and just finally here Alexandra you you are in Stockholm can you give us a sense of what the mood is like uh in your country now that Sweden is going to become the 32nd member of

NATO H as I can hear and I can see I just left the meeting for this interview we are very happy and sharing and the weather is not with us sadly but um it’s uh we are very happy anyway so it’s a very joyful time and and many people are

Are sharing and celebrating today there was cheering in the meeting you were in that you just left yes okay there you go a little a little insight then into how things are going down there we’re goingon to leave it there for today but we do appreciate

You joining us on such short notice here thank you okay thank you very much bye Alexander anell is a member of parliament for the moderate party in Sweden

Hungary’s parliament has voted to ratify Sweden’s bid to become the 32nd member of NATO, bringing an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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  1. Not once, but three times, Baker tried out the “not one inch eastward” formula with Gorbachev in the February 9, 1990, meeting. He agreed with Gorbachev’s statement in response to the assurances that “NATO expansion is unacceptable.” Baker assured Gorbachev that “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place,” and that the Americans understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” #dissolvenato

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  3. I'm absolutely gobsmacked that news readers continue to peddle the putin myth of escalation. It's bollocks mate. He's got nothing except meet grinder zombies. Well done Sweden. We love you!!! Thank you very much indeed for being part of the alliance.??

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