‘The Netherlands must provide Finland and Sweden with military support in the event of a Russian attack’ | Inland
Previously, the United States and the United Kingdom, among others, promised to come to the aid of Finland and Sweden if they come under fire during the NATO application process. Finland announced Thursday that it will soon apply for NATO membership. Sweden is expected to do so very much.
Concerns about security situation
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the countries have been very concerned about their own security situation. Door cover on an attack on one can be seen as an attack on all targets.
The NATO application procedure takes several months to a year. “It is very important that Russia cannot abuse the short period between application and actual launch,” says D66 MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma. “We must therefore act in the spirit of Article 5.” He points out that the Netherlands already provides security guarantees to Finland and Sweden on the basis of an article from the EU treaty. applied state that allies assist each other when there is ‘armed state that is EU’.
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CDA MP Agnes Mulder also wants to provide security guarantees. “Finland and Sweden are submitted fellow countries. We must stand next to them. If necessary, we must help them.” VVD member Ruben Brekelmans also considers it important that the Netherlands and other NATO countries – just like the US and the UK – issue security guarantees for the interim period.
‘Unprecedented aggression Russia’
“Faced with the unprecedented aggression of poetic and democratic countries support,” said MP P. “I understand that Finland and feel threatened and now the historic step to become the lid of NATO. We must support them during the transition phase, also to make it clear to Putin that he should not try anything.”
The government does not provide any additional security guarantees to Finland and Sweden. “The first step is for Finland and Sweden to apply to become members,” said Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren. “It hasn’t happened yet, but there’s a lot of evidence that it’s imminent. We have not received any request for security guarantees. It may be coming, but we haven’t had it yet.”
Rush
Ollongren says it will ‘receive’ Finland and Sweden’s consent to NATO. “Finland can make a major military and financial contribution to NATO. The existence of the depth of the to the alliance. The Netherlands also has to gain from this.”
Parties in the House of Representatives also want the Netherlands to make haste with the story of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership. All thirty current NATO allies must approve. In the Netherlands, the House of Representatives and the Senate are considering it. “For example, if we have to return temporarily from the summer recess,” says CDA member Mulder.