Sharjah24 - AFP: Sweden will apply for membership in NATO against Russian , Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said Monday, reversing two centuries of military non-alignment.
"The government has decided to inform NATO that Sweden wants to become a member of the alliance," Andersson told reporters a day after neighbouring Finland made a similar announcement.
"We are leaving one era and beginning another," she said, adding that Sweden's NATO ambassador would "shortly" inform NATO.
Sweden and Finland have both expressed a desire to act in lockstep on NATO membership and submit their applications jointly.
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