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As Sweden and Finland are set to jointly submit their applications for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership on Wednesday, analysts say that the historic move of the two Nordic states, with decades of neutrality and military non-alignment policies, is bound to add uncertainties to the security situation in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole.
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