Swedish lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday in favor of Sweden joining NATO, signing off on the country's membership along with the required legislation.
Lawmakers sit at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 22, 2023. Swedish lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Sweden joining NATO with lawmakers signing off on membership along with the required legislation. The 349-seat Riksdagen, or parliament, on Wednesday voted 269-37 to clear the last required domestic hurdle to becoming part of the 30-member Western military alliance.
Lawmakers sit at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 22, 2023. Swedish lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Sweden joining NATO with lawmakers signing off on membership along with the required legislation. The 349-seat Riksdagen, or parliament, on Wednesday voted 269-37 to clear the last required domestic hurdle to becoming part of the 30-member Western military alliance.
Six of the eight parties represented in parliament were in favor of NATO membership, and the vote that followed a nearly seven-hour debate was seen as a formality. “Membership in NATO is the best way to safeguard Sweden’s security,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said during the deliberations. He called it “a historic event” and “one of the most important security policy decisions ever for our country.”
Speaking of the timetable for Sweden’s possible accession, Billström told lawmakers during the debate that “it goes without saying that we will be able to become members in Vilnius,” the Lithuanian capital, where a NATO summit is to be held in July.Both Sweden and neighboring Finland applied to join NATO in May 2022, abandoning decades of non-alignment in the wake of
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