While voting was still underway, the tally stood at 74 votes to 1, comfortably surpassing the two-thirds majority (67 votes) required to approve the two countries’ accession protocols to the Treaty Organization North Atlantic.
More than two-thirds of the members of the US Senate on Wednesday approved the admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO, the most significant expansion of the 30-member military alliance since the 1990s, a development that follows the historic decision by the governments of the two countries to leave their neutrality due to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
While voting was still underway, the tally stood at 74 votes to 1, comfortably surpassing the two-thirds majority (67 votes) required to approve the two countries’ accession protocols to the Treaty Organization North Atlantic.
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