Finland's Foreign Minister Signed the Document on NATO Accession
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Pekka Haavisto, has signed the document on Finland's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance.
The ceremony took place at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Haavisto called this moment historic. According to him, around the same time, Türkiye will submit the decision on the ratification of Finland's membership to the US Secretary of State.
These steps remove the last bureaucratic hurdles on Finland's path to NATO and will allow Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to invite Finland to join the alliance formally.
The official ceremony of Finland's accession to NATO will begin at 16:30 Kyiv time. After that, the blue and white flag will be raised next to the flags of the allies. It will fly between the flags of Estonia and France.
Finland will become the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on April 4 after completing the ratification process of joining the defenсe alliance in record time.