After the United States proudly welcomed Sweden to @NATO, there was still one final step — taking the document that indicates Sweden's desire to join the Alliance to the State Department's Treaty Vault.
Along the way, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström recapped how we got here.
Why did the Swedish people decide to join NATO?
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