MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Hungarian Government, Gergely Gulyas, assured this Friday that the European country will ratify the entry of Sweden and Finland into the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) in mid-December at the latest.
Hungary is one of the only two countries that have not submitted to a vote in Parliament the union of the two Nordic countries that applied to join NATO after the start of the conflict in Ukraine.
The Prime Minister and leader of the Fidesz party, Victor Orbán, has delayed the decision to set a date to carry out the vote, since he has started a campaign to profile himself in the face of the sanctions that the European Union has approved against Russia, according to ‘Bloomerg’.
Ratification is the longest stage in the process of adhering to the military organization, with the bureaucratic procedure of all the allies who, in turn, have different validation systems and involve, in many cases, parliamentary votes.
Once all the members of the alliance and the candidates have approved these protocols, the next step takes them to Washington, where the documents are deposited with the United States Government, specifically with the State Department. It is not until all are delivered that the aspiring country becomes a member of NATO.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the process to be speeded up as much as possible in order to have rapid ratification, recognizing that the entire process will take months.
Although NATO has emphasized that the application for membership has been resolved favorably in 7 weeks, being the fastest entry process in the history of the Alliance, the truth is that when Sweden and Finland jointly applied to join NATO on On May 18, the Atlantic organization was betting that its accession would be even more agile and that it would be ready for the Madrid summit at the end of June, given the political closeness and military capacity of Sweden and Finland and the context of war in Ukraine.
