The US Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to give its’ assent to making Finland and Sweden the 31st and 32nd members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, just under three months after President Joe Biden recommended that both nations be allowed to join the 73-year-old defensive alliance.
In a statement, Mr Biden called the vote “historic” and said it “sends an important signal of the sustained, bipartisan U.S. commitment to Nato”.
