Hungarian Parliament Ratifies Finland NATO Accession
Muhammad Irfan Published March 27, 2023 | 11:32 PM
The Hungarian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing Fidesz party, ratified Finland's NATO membership Monday after months of diplomatically charged delay
Budapest, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th Mar, 2023 ) :The Hungarian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing Fidesz party, ratified Finland's NATO membership Monday after months of diplomatically charged delay.
A large majority of lawmakers -- 182 votes for versus six against -- approved the accession of the Nordic country into the military alliance.
The vote means that 29 out of 30 NATO member state parliaments have ratified Finland's accession, with the last -- Turkey's assembly -- expected to also give Helsinki the nod next month.
"Thank you for the decision with clear numbers!" said Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin on Twitter after the vote.
NATO's expansion into Finland -- a country with a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with Russia -- will roughly double the length of the bloc's current frontier with its Cold War-era foe.
Finland had initially aimed to join together with fellow NATO aspirant Sweden.
"The NATO membership of Finland and Sweden will strengthen the security of the whole Alliance," said Marin.
"It is in everyone's interest that Sweden also becomes a member of NATO before the Vilnius Summit," she said.
Helsinki and Stockholm ended decades of military non-alignment and decided to join the world's most powerful defence alliance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Their applications were accepted at a June 2022 NATO summit but the bids still needed to be ratified by all alliance member parliaments.
The nationalist Orban, who nursed close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin until the invasion, said in December that the ratification process would begin in February.
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