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Stoltenberg: Sweden, Finland on course to join NATO

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STORY: "We will make a decision at the summit to invite Sweden and Finland to become members, that's unprecedented quick," he told reporters on the second day of a NATO summit in Madrid. Both countries applied for membership of the alliance in mid-May.

"After invitation, we need a ratification process in 30 parliaments," he added. "That always takes some time but I expect also that to go rather quickly because allies are ready to try to make that ratification process happen as quickly as possible."

Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has given a new impetus to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation after failures in Afghanistan and internal discord during the era of former U.S. President Donald Trump.