Sweden officially joins Nato, ending decades of neutrality. It comes as security concerns have heightened in Europe following the Ukraine war.
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00:00 Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the military alliance, ending decades
00:07 of post-World War II neutrality.
00:12 Russia will stay a serious threat to the Euro-Atlantic security for the foreseeable future.
00:18 It was in this light that Sweden applied to join the NATO defence alliance.
00:25 Sweden's membership comes as concerns about Russian aggression in Europe have heightened
00:30 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:32 Sweden and Finland both abandoned long-standing neutrality that was a hallmark of the Nordic
00:37 state's Cold War foreign policy.
00:39 [WHOOSH]