After Finland was formally invited to join the NATO this week, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto spoke to CNN about the new world order where Finland could not maintain neutrality as its neighbor Russia becomes a security threat, CNN reports.
"I think it's a new reality. I really think that the European security architects has been broken. It's a new situation, there's a new kind of iron wall between Russia and the other countries. And of course, it's based on Russia's aggression against its neighbor Ukraine," Pekka said in an interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine "has changed the security atmosphere," he added.
Pekka also said there are concerns about "the loose talks about the nuclear weapons, the chemical weapons," leading the world back to the Cuba missile crisis during the Cold War.
"Yes we have a strong traditional military. We have our F-35s coming and so forth. But what if we're threatened by unconventional weapons?" Pekka said about Finland's security concerns.
