Hungary’s president signed a bill Tuesday approving the Nordic country’s bid.
Sweden’s arduous path to joining the NATO alliance came to a successful close Thursday, as the Swedish prime minister and foreign minister deposited the country’s „instrument of accession“ at the State Department in Washington.
In a lighthearted ceremony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken posed for photos with a blue folder holding the document, and quipped „well, good things come to those who wait.“
„With receipt of this instrument of accession, let me be the very first to welcome Sweden as a party to the Washington Treaty and the 32nd member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,“ he continued.
