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05
April
2023

Only collective security guarantees can be reliable – Zelenskyy on Finland's accession to NATO

KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated the people of Finland and its President on joining NATO and noted that only collective and preventive security guarantees can be reliable.

“Today, by the way, a historic event took place for our region, for all of Europe, for the entire Euro-Atlantic community. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO. The alliance is getting stronger on the eastern flank. I congratulate all the people of Finland and Mr. President personally on a reliable security guarantee – a collective guarantee,” he said in his video address on Tuesday.

According to him, “Russian aggression clearly proves that only collective guarantees, only preventive guarantees can be reliable.”

“That’s what we always talked about. We also talked about speed – the speed of security decisions matters. Now we can see how fast the procedures can be,” he said, adding: “By the way, this year’s NATO Summit in Vilnius deserves to be quite ambitious. The more ambitious the one who protects freedom, the less opportunities for aggression the one who wants evil has.”

“The day will come when security will be guaranteed for our country as well,” Zelenskyy stressed.