Focus News Agency
February 28, 2018
Finnish President: possible accession to NATO to be put up for referendum
Helsinki. The issue of Finland’s possible accession to NATO will be put up for referendum, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto told the media on Saturday, TASS reported.
“We had a referendum on [Finland’s] accession to the EU. In this case, we are talking about the issue of a similar scale,” Niinisto said.
He expressed hope that the new Finnish government that comes to power after parliamentary election in April will not include in its program the point on excluding accession to NATO. “In any case, I hope it [the new government] will not exclude the possibility altogether,” the president noted.
The incumbent authorities’ program includes a point that states that Finland will not file for accession to NATO in the period of the current government’s service.
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