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The Swedish Parliament today adopted a law for the country's accession to NATO, after its application was supported by all 30 member states of the alliance, the world agencies reported, quoted by BTA.

Sweden and neighboring Finland applied for NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

However, the process of their accession is blocked by Turkey and Hungary.

The 349-member Riksdag, Sweden's unicameral parliament, approved the law by a large majority.

269 ​​deputies voted "for" and 37 - "against".

43 people's representatives were not present in the hall.

Only two small parties - the Left Party and the Greens - declared against Sweden joining NATO.

If accepted into the North Atlantic alliance, the northern country would end its two-century-old policy of not joining military alliances.

"NATO membership is the best way to guarantee Sweden's security," Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said during parliamentary debates before the vote.

He said he was optimistic the accession process would be completed before July's alliance summit in Lithuania.

Last week, Turkish President Recep Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Turkish politician and prime minister.

Born on February 26, 1954 in Istanbul, Zavarsva said his country would move forward with the approval process for Finland's bid, but not Sweden's.

Hungary's parliament said it would vote on March 27 on the law to ratify Finland's accession agreement, but there is no planned vote on it with Sweden so far.

Finland's parliament passed the NATO accession law

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