The Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported that the Finnish bill for the country’s accession to NATO is almost ready, and that it does not contain any restrictions on the establishment of military bases in the country or the deployment of nuclear weapons.
The newspaper, citing its sources, said that “the government bill will allow the introduction of NATO nuclear weapons into the territory of Finland … The project also does not impose restrictions on the establishment of NATO bases in Finland and does not limit their number of forces of NATO member states (on their territory)” .
The bill is expected to be submitted for consideration within the next two weeks.
According to sources, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Defense Minister Antti Kakkonen pledged during Finland’s NATO accession talks last July that her government would not include any national restrictions or reservations on its membership in the NATO accession treaty. .
On May 18, against the backdrop of a Russian special operation in Ukraine, Finland and Sweden turned to the NATO Secretary General with a request to join the alliance. So far, 28 out of 30 countries (with the exception of Turkey and Hungary) have declared their agreement to accept two countries into NATO.
Earlier, the alliance stated that it does not plan to provide guarantees to Russia about the non-deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Sweden and Finland if they join the alliance.
Last May, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO would lead to the militarization of the North, but at the same time noted that it was premature to talk about Russia’s deployment of nuclear weapons in the Baltic region.
Source: “News”