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Thursday, 19 May 2022 (YJC)_ The President of Croatia, the second member of NATO after Turkey, announced his opposition to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, and the path for the two European countries to join the alliance became more rugged.
Following Turkey's opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, Croatia, as another NATO member, called for the two European countries to be barred from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The Russian network "RT" reported in this regard:
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic announced yesterday (Wednesday) that he intends to instruct Mario Nobilo, Croatia's permanent representative to NATO, to prevent Finland and Sweden from joining the decades-old NATO alliance.
Milanovic told reporters that the refusal to grant Finland and Sweden the right to join NATO would draw the international community's attention to the plight of ethnic Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under current Croatian election laws, Croatian representatives tend to be elected by the vote of Bosnian Muslims known as "Bosniaks", and Zagreb is seeking a review.
The President of Croatia said in this regard:
I have said it before. To me, Croats in Bosnia are more important than the entire Russian-Finnish border. Stockholm and Helsinki formally renounced their history of neutrality on May 15 and applied for NATO membership. However, their accession to NATO requires the consent of all members of the Security Alliance.
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