GENEVA, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Finland and Sweden have both announced decisions to apply for the NATO membership.
If the two countries join the military alliance, it would end their long-standing policy of military non-alignment.
Pierre Conesa, a former French Defense Ministry official, says that all the developments contribute to a missed opportunity to propose an inclusive European security architecture to Russia, wherein lies the source of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.
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