

This will make the whole #NATO family stronger & safer," Stoltenberg said in a tweet.įinnish President Sauli Niinistö celebrated the news, saying "Finland is now ready to join NATO." Niinistö added that he hopes neighboring country Sweden will also be able to join as soon as possible. "I welcome the vote of the Grand National Assembly of #Türkiye to complete the ratification of #Finland’s accession. You can read more about how it functions here. The council requires consensus to adopt most decisions, regardless of which country sits at the head of its meetings. Why this is happening: The presidency of the Security Council is held by each member in turn for one month, following the English alphabetical order of the member states' names. The foreign minister also said he expects the other members of the UNSC, both permanent and non-permanent, to “corner Russia as much as they can within existing procedures and rules during its presidency, not allow it to abuse the UNSC rules and to continue pushing the narratives which tell the truth about this war that Russia is conducting.” It will try to abuse its rights of the presidency to push its own narratives, but I doubt they will be able to secure the sufficient number of votes to make the council adopt decisions,” Kuleba continued. “I don't think Russia will be able to change the balance inside the UN Security Council during its presidency.
