Explainer: What you need to know about Finland and Sweden's path to NATO membership

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Finland and Sweden would like to have some guarantees that NATO member nations would defend them while any application is processed and until they became full members.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the countries could join"quickly" and that he was sure arrangements could be found for the interim period. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto acknowledged filing a membership application by itself would not bring the two countries under the umbrella of NATO's Article 5, which guarantees that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.

 

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