Finland’s Defense Chief Doesn’t Rule Out NATO Membership

‘Finland may consider joining NATO when the need to defend its national security arises, however, the current Finish defense strategy does not include any timetable or procedures for joining the Alliance, Finland’s Defense Committee Chairman Ilkka Kanerva told Sputnik on Sunday.
“I am the man who was formulating the text of government’s foreign and security policy program and, of course, we have a very clear commitment of the government to continue our partnership with NATO and in case it would be necessary for Finland in the name of its own security, we may to consider a membership as a possibility,” Kanerva, who is also the President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), said on the sidelines of ongoing OSCE PA meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia.’
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