The country, which shares a border with Russia, applied to join the military alliance in the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year.
Finland will officially become a member of NATO on Tuesday, the Finnish president's office has announced.
The announcement was also confirmed by NATO's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, who said the move will make Finland"safer". The Nordic nation, which shares a border with Russia, applied to join the military alliance in the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine last year.Turkey was the last of NATO's 30 members to accept Finland's application last month.
The country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier in March that Finland had secured Turkey's blessing after taking concrete steps to keep promises to crack down on groups seen by Ankara as terrorists, and to free up defence exports., with the government saying Stockholm has so far failed to sufficiently crackdown on similar groups.
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