1.媒體來源:
Guradian 衛報
2.記者署名:
Jon Henley
3.完整新聞標題:
Sweden and Finland agree to submit Nato applications, say reports
瑞典和芬蘭同意提交北約申請
4.完整新聞內文:
Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit simultaneous membership applications
to the US-led Nato alliance as early as the middle of next month, Nordic
media have reported.
The Finnish daily Iltalehti said on Monday that Stockholm had “suggested the
two countries indicate their willingness to join” on the same day, and that
Helsinki had agreed “as long as the Swedish government has made its decision
”.
The Swedish newspaper Expressen cited government sources as confirming the
report. The two countries’ prime ministers said this month they were
deliberating the question, arguing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had changed
Europe’s “whole security landscape” and “dramatically shaped mindsets”
in the Nordic region.
Finland’s prime minister, Sanna Marin, said then that her country, which
shares a 1,300km (810 mile) border with Russia, would decide whether to apply
to join the alliance “quite fast, in weeks not months”, despite the risk of
infuriating Moscow.
Her Swedish counterpart, Magdalena Andersson, said Sweden had to be “
prepared for all kinds of actions from Russia” and that “everything had
changed” when Moscow attacked Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly warned both
countries against the move.
The Kremlin said it would be forced to “restore military balance” by
strengthening its defences in the Baltic, including by deploying nuclear
weapons, if the two countries decided to abandon decades of military
nonalignment by joining Nato.
Sweden’s foreign minister, Ann Linde, said last week a wide-ranging security
policy review would be concluded by 13 rather than 31 May as originally
planned, adding that with Finland’s analysis already published “there is
now a lot of pressure”.
Expressen said the simultaneous applications could be submitted in the week
of 16 May, coinciding with a state visit to Stockholm by the Finnish
president Sauli Niinistö. The Guardian could not independently confirm the
reports.
Recent opinion polls have shown as many as 68% of Finns are in favour of
joining the alliance, more than double the figure before the invasion, with
only 12% against. Polling in Sweden suggests a slim majority of Swedes also
back membership.
Both countries are officially nonaligned militarily, but became Nato partners
– taking part in exercises and exchanging intelligence – after abandoning
their previous stance of strict neutrality when they joined the EU in 1995
after the end of the cold war.
原文大綱翻譯
北歐當地媒體超報導指明，瑞典與芬蘭將在下個月中旬提交加入北約的申請。
芬蘭總理早前就表示: 申請加入北約，需要的是幾週而不是幾個月，儘管這有可能激怒
莫斯科。而另一位瑞典官員也表明:瑞典必須為俄羅斯的種種行為做好準備。
俄羅斯仍然是持續警告這兩國，此次申請行動會改變波羅的海的戰爭防禦板塊，例如俄
將會在周遭區域部署核武，藉此達到"軍事平衡"。
瑞典媒體表示北約申請很有可能是在5/16提交，不過目前為止衛報還無法證實這項消息
民意調查顯示68%的芬蘭人支持加入北約，這是俄國入侵烏克蘭時的兩倍，並且此時只有
12%的人表示反對。瑞典也有不少的民眾也支持加入。
5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址)需放媒體原始連結，不可用轉載媒體連結:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9xmwnr
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/sweden-and-finland-agree-to-submit-nato-applications
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