{"id":11878,"date":"2024-02-28T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/sweden-expected-to-join-nato\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:41:59","slug":"sweden-expected-to-join-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/sweden-expected-to-join-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Expected to Join NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Sweden is set to become the 32nd member of\u00a0NATO following more than a year of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The country formally applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parliaments of all NATO member states have now voted in favor of Swedish accession to NATO.\u201d Swedish Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;sca_esv=59bcec2abd4eef4d&amp;sca_upv=1&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Ulf+Kristersson&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3sDQ0sDR_xGjCLfDyxz1hKe1Ja05eY1Tl4grOyC93zSvJLKkUEudig7J4pbi5ELp4FrHyh-akKXgXZRaXpBYVF-fnAQD7xV2vVgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwio6LbOjsqEAxVB_skDHZbBCKQQzIcDKAB6BAgeEAE\">Ulf Kristersson<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/sweden-to-join-nato\/#:~:text=BUDAPEST%20%E2%80%94%20At%20last%2C%20Sweden%20will,vote%20to%20approve%20the%20move.\">said<\/a>. \u201cSweden stands ready to shoulder its responsibility for Euro-Atlantic security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Wire, \u201cJoining NATO requires the unanimous consent of all current members \u2013 while most NATO nations were quick to approve the applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkey approved Sweden\u2019s membership bid last month and on Monday the Hungarian parliament also approved it,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden is expected to officially join the organization in a ceremony sometime this week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">V\u00e4lkommen till NATO, Sverige!<\/p>\n<p>All NATO members have ratified Sweden&#8217;s accession \u2013 an important day for the security of the Nordic-Baltic region and the Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden joining NATO also sends a signal to Russia: attempts to blackmail NATO away from its neighborhood have failed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yrobZTR9GU\">pic.twitter.com\/yrobZTR9GU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kajakallas\/status\/1762147931346370889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/sweden-expected-to-join-nato\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is set to become the 32nd member of\u00a0NATO following more than a year of negotiations. The country formally applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u201cThe parliaments of all NATO member states have now voted in favor of Swedish accession to NATO.\u201d Swedish Prime Minister\u00a0Ulf Kristersson\u00a0said. \u201cSweden stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}