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Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said Sunday he is optimistic his country will eventually join NATO, but he conceded that Turkey has a "different opinion" ...

“But after Putin’s speech, I am afraid that quite a many of us would have said that yes, they forbid you to join. “What comes to Finland and Sweden, yes, when Putin said that he would demand NATO not to enlarge anymore, actually that was kind of a game changer in our mind. Niinistö indicated Sunday that there is a disagreement about whether the Scandinavian countries are living up to their commitments. The “European Union has declared the PKK as a terrorist organization, and that is how we deal with that. It’s been nearly nine months since that deal was signed, but the NATO memberships remain on hold. The SDF has been the chief U.S.

Türkiye expects Sweden and Finland to fulfill their responsibilities under the tripartite agreement in order to welcome them into NATO, Defense Minister...

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Kurds, anti-nuclear activists, indigenous communities and conspiracists unite to resist sudden embrace of the military alliance. STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - JANUARY ...

[wrote](https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/zExrKO/karin-pettersson-om-nato-ett-ar-efter-rysslands-invasion-av-ukraina): “I wanted the risks of allying with leaders like Erdogan or an American president who in the future may again be called Donald Trump to be taken seriously. Sweden has also [resumed weapons sales](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-resumes-arms-exports-turkey-after-nato-membership-bid-2022-09-30/) to Turkey. Anti-Nato activists describe a hostile environment in which opposition to the alliance is equated with support for Russia. “There is already a fight over land in the country and I believe that Nato can see the north of Sweden as a huge military region to carry out their drills… On 15 May, the Social Democrat-led government announced that it [supported joining Nato](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedens-ruling-party-backs-joining-nato-2022-05-15/) and launched the bid three days later. “The Russian assault on Ukraine is a disgraceful act… On 21 January, hundreds of Kurdish protesters marched through Stockholm with an effigy of the Turkish leader against the bid to join Nato. But a significant minority of opposition remains across the political spectrum for a variety of reasons. Sweden needs to take a firm stand against Russia in that conflict,” he tells i. I just see this as another form of colonisation.” Public opinion polls shifted from roughly even to a [strong majority](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/growing-majority-swedes-back-joining-nato-opinion-poll-shows-2022-04-20/) in favour of membership. “Sweden has not been in a proper war, when it was attacked, for more than 200 years.”

A parliamentary delegation from Hungary says lawmakers widely support NATO membership for Finland but it's unclear when they will ratify the Nordic ...

The U.S. ambassador to Norway, Marc Nathanson, says the whole northern flank of NATO has to be conscious of the border with Russia up north as Putin has ...

[drove snowmobiles along Norway’s borderline with the Kola Peninsula](https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/03/key-nato-leaders-teamed-northern-border-russia), home to thousands of soldiers sent to the onslaught in northern and eastern Ukraine. The U.S. The B-52 flight on Saturday, March 11, flew in the skies over Tromsø, Senja and Andøya area before the large plane headed south over Denmark into the Baltic Sea. “I think it is very important that we do everything we can on the world stage, in the international court, in the press associations, to encourage and to support a free press,” Marc Nathanson says with hope. “If there is anything I should thank Putin for is that he has prompted a rapid consolidation of all the countries in NATO and now finally with Sweden and Finland joining.” Nathanson says in this interview with the Barents Observer that he is not only welcoming Sweden and Finland into NATO but saying “it’s about time.”

Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have voted to abandon their longstanding position on NATO. Prior to the vote, the party's policy stated that ...

But it does mean that NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security. It goes on to call for NATO to guarantee a no first use policy on nuclear weapons, commit to upholding human rights in NATO’s actions and to act “solely in defence of member states”. In a major about turn, the newly written policy now reads: “NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security”. “Conference’s support for this motion does not mean a direct role for NATO in Ukraine. The change in the position on NATO was part of a wider rewrite of the party’s policies on peace, security and defence. Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have voted to abandon their longstanding position on NATO.