Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said the Baltic Sea would soon become a NATO sea.
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The head of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, told the Financial Times that the Baltic Sea would soon become a NATO sea. He made such a statement when he spoke of the plans of Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Alliance.
“The Baltic Sea is becoming a sea of NATO,” he remarked.
The President of Finland and the Prime Minister of the country have announced that the Republic should apply to join the alliance. It was later revealed that Sweden, like Finland, would apply to join NATO on May 16. “In all political, practical and security terms, it would be more reliable for Finland and Sweden to join NATO. The North Atlantic “Such a decision could send a clear signal that Northern Europe” is NATO territory, “he quoted from the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Gabriel Landsbergis.