For the first time in many years, NATO has received a “donor” state in the form of Finland, which has a highly professional and well-equipped military. Tatyana Parkhalina, President of the Russian Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Candidate of Historical Sciences, spoke about this in a conversation with Zvezda.
“In recent waves of alliance expansion, the countries that joined were the ‘beneficiaries’ of security. And Finland, of course, is a “donor” of security. It is a highly professional and well-equipped army of 250,000 men. And I must say that what is called interoperability has been achieved,” she said.
Parkhalina noted that Finland’s admission process to NATO took only a year and bypassed the Membership Action Plan (MAP), which provides for interoperability and adaptation to covenant standards. Thus, a precedent has been set, she pointed out.
“Thereafter, it is possible to accept certain countries… without MAP. The MAP is, so to speak, a lobby where certain countries have sometimes remained 9-10 years”, explained the interlocutor.
Finland officially became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Alliance on Tuesday. According to the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, no foreign troops will be deployed on the territory of the State without its request.
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