“I expect all NATO countries to agree.

This has been discussed many times, they (Sweden and Finland. -

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) meet all the criteria, ”RIA Novosti quotes politics.

According to Støre, the process should not be dragged out over time.

Earlier, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that Hungary intends to ratify the agreement on membership of Finland and Sweden in the North Atlantic Alliance in early February 2023.

According to Haavisto, he was informed about this by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia respects the sovereignty of Hungary in matters of domestic and foreign policy.