“I don’t think they planned attacks on Finland either then or now,” the head of state said, quoted by RIA Novosti.
Niinistö noted that the security situation has changed.
“Europe and the world are now more seriously divided.
There is almost no room left for non-alignment,” the head of Finland said.
On May 14, the Finnish president told Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation that his country intended to join the North Atlantic Alliance.
Putin, in turn, stressed that abandoning the traditional policy of military neutrality would be a mistake, since there are no threats to Finland's security.