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There is no change in NATO's open door policy: U.S. State Department

15 April 2022 08:18 (UTC +04:00)

"There is no change in Washington's position and repeated that "NATO's open door is an open door," the U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said when he was asked the question "Is there any change in how the U.S. views Finland and Sweden potentially joining NATO given Russia’s threat today, APA reports.

He siad it is up to the NATO Alliance to determine – and only the NATO Alliance – to determine what its membership looks like: "As you know, there are – there is a set of criteria that any aspirant country would need to satisfy, would need to answer for before it would be in a position to join the Alliance. That ultimately is a question for that aspirant country and NATO’s 30 allied members."