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Stockholm has formally been greenlit for accession to the US-led bloc.
Sweden has officially become the 32nd member of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization after the document formalizing Stockholm’s accession to the bloc entered into force on Thursday.
The accession ceremony will be held in Washington, where Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will submit his country’s accession documents to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
NATO is preparing for new wars, and drills conducted by the alliance in Europe increase tensions in the world, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Thursday.
“The joint drills of NATO armed forces in Europe called Steadfast Defender 2024, during which the scenario of armed confrontation with Russia is being worked out, will certainly increase tensions and destabilize the situation in the world,” Patrushev said during a meeting on security in North Caucasus.
NATO plans to increase its presence in the Arctic and Asia-Pacific, Patrushev added.
Nikolay Patrushev pointed also out that “the exercises of NATO’s armed forces in Europe codenamed Steadfast Defender 2024, during which the scenario of an armed confrontation with Russia is being worked out, undoubtedly increase tension and destabilize the situation in the world”
