(Finance) – “Today is a historic day, because in a few hours we will welcome the Finland as the thirty-first member of our Alliance. This will make Finland safer and the Born stronger”. Thus the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, on his arrival at the Foreign Ministerial at the Atlantic Alliance headquarters in Brussels. According to Stoltenberg, “the Russia and the China they’re getting closer and closer to each other, they’re working together, and that makes things difficult. For this we need our partners in the Indo-Pacific”. The NATO secretary general observed that “the safety it is not a regional issue, but a global one” and “the war in Ukraine proves it with all its ramifications”.
To the Vilnius summit on 11 and 12 July “I expect the Allies to agree on goals Of defence more ambitious, considering 2% of GDP not as a spending ceiling but as a minimum base that we must spend for our security in a more dangerous world,” he added. “Just look at the map to understand how much Finland is strategic And important for the security of the Baltic region”, underlined Stoltenberg, indicating that “from today article 5 of the NATO Treaty”, which ensures the defense of each Ally in the event of an attack by another State, will also be applied to Helsinki , which will thus obtain “a guarantee of iron security”.
In the meantime, the reply of the Kremlin, whose spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Tass, said that Finland’s entry into NATO forces Russia to adopt “countermeasures” to guarantee its own security. In promising countermeasures to ensure Russian security, the Kremlin spokesman stressed that Finland’s entry into NATO represents a new escalation, placing “a threat to Russia’s security”. Moscow, Peskov assures, will closely monitor the movements of weapons and military infrastructure on Finnish territory and will announce its response “in due course”, he added.