Finland will officially join Nato on Tuesday, the Finnish president’s office has said.

This development follows Turkey’s approval of Helsinki’s membership bid last Thursday.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also confirmed the news on Monday.

“We will raise the Finnish flag for the first time here at Nato headquarters. It will be a good day for Finland’s security, for Nordic security and for Nato as a whole,” he said in Brussels.

Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato last year, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.