{"id":37195,"date":"2022-05-12T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T10:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=37195"},"modified":"2022-05-12T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T10:58:05","slug":"zelensky-congratulated-the-president-of-finland-on-his-decision-to-join-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=37195","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky congratulated the President of Finland on his decision to join NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi congratulated his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niiniste on his readiness to apply for NATO membership.\u00a0The head of the Ukrainian state wrote about it in the Twitter, \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 12 , May , 2022 | Ukraine News \u00a0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He had a telephone conversation with the President of Finland. He welcomed Finland&#8217;s readiness to apply for NATO membership. They also discussed Ukraine&#8217;s European integration and defense cooperation between Ukraine and Finland,&#8221; Zelensky wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, most Finns were in favor of joining NATO for the first time.\u00a0According to the Yle poll, support for Alliance membership rose to 76%.\u00a0In addition, 84% of Finns now see Russia as a significant military threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi congratulated his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niiniste on his readiness to apply for NATO membership.\u00a0The head of the Ukrainian state wrote about it in the Twitter, \u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 12 , May , 2022 | Ukraine News \u00a0. Quote &#8220;He had a telephone conversation with the President of Finland. He welcomed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10831],"tags":[744,1064,1106],"class_list":["post-37195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-president","tag-war","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37197,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions\/37197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}