Finland is preparing to apply for NATO membership with an additional registration issued by TP-Utva
The government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin (sd) will publish a supplement to its foreign and security policy report on Maundy Thursday, 14 April.
Parliamentary committees will begin discussing it after Easter. The supplement does not directly express the NATO position of the Finnish state leadership.
According to Iltalehti , Finland is preparing to apply for NATO membership through an additional registration, which may be reported by the Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (TP-Utva) of the President of the Republic and the Government during parliamentary proceedings.
TP-Utva can therefore hold a meeting chaired by President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Marin, at which Niinistö and Marin apply for NATO membership.
The additional entry is brief and only states that the state leadership has decided to apply for NATO membership.
The decision to be made at TP-Utva will be preceded by a announcement to Niinistö and Marin by a working group consisting of party leaders and chairmen of parliamentary groups that there is a strong parliamentary majority in favor of NATO membership.
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) confirms Iltalehti ‘s announcement that, if necessary, there will be a readiness to prepare a second report if TP-Utva were to propose NATO membership, and to submit an addendum containing the NATO position to Parliament.
A decision will be made soon
IL sources estimate that a decision will be made in TP-Utva to apply for NATO membership during the first two weeks of May.
However, the decision route built by the government, the president of the republic, party leaders and the parliamentary bureau will allow TP-Utva to make a decision on additional registration, ie applying for NATO membership, even before May Day, during April.
The work of the working group consisting of party leaders is led by the Speaker of Parliament Matti Vanhanen (center).
After TP-Utva has published an additional entry, the state leadership will forward information to NATO headquarters in Brussels that Finland would like to join the Defense League.
The United States is monitoring ratification
Accession to NATO is by invitation and Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington in April 1949, applies.
The IL has asked the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Unit for EU and Treaty Law how Finland’s accession to NATO would take place in practice.
– The accession process starts with the candidate country notifying NATO of its intention to join NATO, after which NATO invites the candidate country to join. All (current) NATO member states are required to sign and ratify the accession protocol of the applicant country in accordance with their national procedures and to deposit the instruments of ratification with the United States Government, the Depositary of the North Atlantic Treaty. The depositary’s duties generally include the depositary informing the parties to the agreement in question of the notifications made to it, says Laura Peuraniemi , deputy head of unit, Legislative Secretary.
The role of the United States is therefore central to the ratification phase of membership, which President Niinistö has emphasized in an interview with IL .
According to Niinistö, the U.S. diplomatic word weighs heavily on NATO because the deterrent deterrence relies heavily on American forces and American weapons.
It will then be linked to the ratification phase. Certainly, he is assessing the impact of the will of the United States.
The influence of the United States is significantly increased by the fact that the country collects decisions on the ratification of Finland’s membership from other NATO member states.
If a country were to delay ratification, the United States would raise the issue in bilateral relations between the United States and that country, according to IL.
Finally, NATO invites to become a member
The Finnish Parliament will only vote on NATO membership at the very end.
For this reason, a separate working group of party leaders has now been set up to make a NATO application, signaling to the state leadership that a solid majority of parliamentary parties and members of parliament support the application for membership.
The actual decision to apply is made by TP-Utva with an additional report.
Final accession will take place after the ratification round by invitation.
Once all Member States have deposited their instruments of ratification, the Secretary General of NATO invites the candidate country to accede to the North Atlantic Treaty. Accession is thus by agreement upon invitation. The applicant country must approve the accession treaty nationally and deposit an instrument of accession with the United States government. As a result of the deposit, the applicant country will become a member of NATO, Peuraniemi says.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly assessed that NATO member states would be accepted as members of the Finnish Defense League.
As joining NATO is officially by invitation, Stoltenberg’s statements mean in practice that Finland has also been assessed to meet the membership criteria in the Defense League.
for the 10th time today apparently
As a Finn, i’m sorry that we are such cock-teasers :D. It will happen, don’t worry.
Is this gonna happen or ? it would definitely be a challenge for putin
Yet another post on this topic. If the NATO membership comes faster this way, by all means, bring more posts.
Has Russia made their daily threats already?
They beat us in hockey, so it’s going to have to be a veto from us!!/s
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**Translation from Finnish**
Finland is preparing to apply for NATO membership with an additional registration issued by TP-Utva
The government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin (sd) will publish a supplement to its foreign and security policy report on Maundy Thursday, 14 April.
Parliamentary committees will begin discussing it after Easter. The supplement does not directly express the NATO position of the Finnish state leadership.
According to Iltalehti , Finland is preparing to apply for NATO membership through an additional registration, which may be reported by the Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (TP-Utva) of the President of the Republic and the Government during parliamentary proceedings.
TP-Utva can therefore hold a meeting chaired by President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Marin, at which Niinistö and Marin apply for NATO membership.
The additional entry is brief and only states that the state leadership has decided to apply for NATO membership.
The decision to be made at TP-Utva will be preceded by a announcement to Niinistö and Marin by a working group consisting of party leaders and chairmen of parliamentary groups that there is a strong parliamentary majority in favor of NATO membership.
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) confirms Iltalehti ‘s announcement that, if necessary, there will be a readiness to prepare a second report if TP-Utva were to propose NATO membership, and to submit an addendum containing the NATO position to Parliament.
A decision will be made soon
IL sources estimate that a decision will be made in TP-Utva to apply for NATO membership during the first two weeks of May.
However, the decision route built by the government, the president of the republic, party leaders and the parliamentary bureau will allow TP-Utva to make a decision on additional registration, ie applying for NATO membership, even before May Day, during April.
The work of the working group consisting of party leaders is led by the Speaker of Parliament Matti Vanhanen (center).
After TP-Utva has published an additional entry, the state leadership will forward information to NATO headquarters in Brussels that Finland would like to join the Defense League.
The United States is monitoring ratification
Accession to NATO is by invitation and Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty, done at Washington in April 1949, applies.
The IL has asked the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Unit for EU and Treaty Law how Finland’s accession to NATO would take place in practice.
– The accession process starts with the candidate country notifying NATO of its intention to join NATO, after which NATO invites the candidate country to join. All (current) NATO member states are required to sign and ratify the accession protocol of the applicant country in accordance with their national procedures and to deposit the instruments of ratification with the United States Government, the Depositary of the North Atlantic Treaty. The depositary’s duties generally include the depositary informing the parties to the agreement in question of the notifications made to it, says Laura Peuraniemi , deputy head of unit, Legislative Secretary.
The role of the United States is therefore central to the ratification phase of membership, which President Niinistö has emphasized in an interview with IL .
According to Niinistö, the U.S. diplomatic word weighs heavily on NATO because the deterrent deterrence relies heavily on American forces and American weapons.
It will then be linked to the ratification phase. Certainly, he is assessing the impact of the will of the United States.
The influence of the United States is significantly increased by the fact that the country collects decisions on the ratification of Finland’s membership from other NATO member states.
If a country were to delay ratification, the United States would raise the issue in bilateral relations between the United States and that country, according to IL.
Finally, NATO invites to become a member
The Finnish Parliament will only vote on NATO membership at the very end.
For this reason, a separate working group of party leaders has now been set up to make a NATO application, signaling to the state leadership that a solid majority of parliamentary parties and members of parliament support the application for membership.
The actual decision to apply is made by TP-Utva with an additional report.
Final accession will take place after the ratification round by invitation.
Once all Member States have deposited their instruments of ratification, the Secretary General of NATO invites the candidate country to accede to the North Atlantic Treaty. Accession is thus by agreement upon invitation. The applicant country must approve the accession treaty nationally and deposit an instrument of accession with the United States government. As a result of the deposit, the applicant country will become a member of NATO, Peuraniemi says.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly assessed that NATO member states would be accepted as members of the Finnish Defense League.
As joining NATO is officially by invitation, Stoltenberg’s statements mean in practice that Finland has also been assessed to meet the membership criteria in the Defense League.
for the 10th time today apparently
As a Finn, i’m sorry that we are such cock-teasers :D. It will happen, don’t worry.
Is this gonna happen or ? it would definitely be a challenge for putin
Yet another post on this topic. If the NATO membership comes faster this way, by all means, bring more posts.
Has Russia made their daily threats already?
They beat us in hockey, so it’s going to have to be a veto from us!!/s