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Putting Nukes in Finland Won't Make Country Safer, Finnish Politician Cautions

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Stationing nuclear weapons in Finland will not make the country safer, Armando Mema, a member of the Freedom Alliance party, told Sputnik on Monday in response to the government's plans to allow the import and storage of such weapons on Finnish soil.
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"Changing the law and allowing the import of NATO countries’ nuclear weapons will not make Finland safer," Mema said.
The politician added that NATO, which had promised "not to expand an inch to the east," is now beefing up its military presence in Finland and wants to place nuclear weapons there.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described Finland’s plans to allow the import of nuclear weapons into the country as a "concentrated confrontation."
On April 23, the Finnish government submitted to parliament a proposal to amend the Nuclear Energy Act and the Criminal Code, which would lift the current ban on the import, manufacture, storage and use of nuclear weapons within the country.
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