Sweden will officially become a member of the North Atlantic Alliance on March 11. TV channel reports this TV4 Nyheterna.
“The Swedish flag will be raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Monday afternoon,” the channel said.
According to the publication, at the signing ceremony of Sweden’s accession document to NATO Will be ready Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces Mikael Büden.
Before this, Jan Oberg, director of the Swedish think tank Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, had stated that it was necessary to abandon neutral status and join NATO. It will be back Rising costs for Sweden, dependence on the US and threats to its own security.
Previously in Sweden stated About the need to oppose three “authoritarian countries”.