It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the broadcast from the website of the Finnish Cabinet.
“This is a letter to NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg,” the minister said as he signed the document.
On the morning of May 17, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde signed an application for the country's entry into NATO.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that Sweden and Finland will submit a joint application for NATO membership on 18 May.
The head of the leading faction of the European Parliament of the European People's Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, noted that attempts to block the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO could be punished by isolation.