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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, speaks as members of the military prepare to raise the flag of Sweden during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Members of the military raise the flag of Sweden, as other other alliance member flags flap in the wind, during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Two military personnel prepare to raise the flag of Sweden during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson walk to a media conference prior to a flag raising ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Admiral Douglas G. Perry, head of NATO's force command in Norfolk, lieutenant general Carl-Johan Edström, head of operations command in Sweden and head of operations, vice admiral Rune Andersen, meet for a so-called Commanders Huddle, aboard the Norwegian coast guard ship KV Bjørnøya off Alta, Norway, Friday, March 8, 2024, in connection with the military exercise Nordic Response. Over 20,000 Norwegian and allied soldiers from 13 countries will train together to defend the Nordic region. (Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix via AP)
The NATO flag, left, is raised next to the Swedish flag during a ceremony at the Musko navy base Stockholm, Monday, March 11, 2024. Sweden’s national flag has been raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels, cementing the Nordic country’s place as the 32nd member of the alliance two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine persuaded its reluctant public to seek safety under NATO’s security umbrella. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
A French sailor uses binoculars to scan the area as others stand on the bow of the French navy frigate Normandie during a docking manoeuvre in a Norwegian fjord, north of the Arctic circle, Friday March 8, 2024. The French frigate is part of a NATO force conducting exercises in the seas, north of Norway, codenamed Steadfast Defender, which are the largest conducted by the 31 nation military alliance since the cold war. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, center right, speaks as members of the military prepare to raise the flag of Sweden during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Members of the military raise the flag of Sweden on its newly installed pole during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, center, watches as members of the military prepare to raise the flag of Sweden during a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson address a media conference prior to a flag raising ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, front center, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, center right, and Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, center left, pose with military and staff personnel after a ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands during a media conference prior to a flag raising ceremony to mark the accession of Sweden to NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
A view of soldiers as forces from Norway, Sweden and Finland during a NATO training exercise, in Kautokeino, Norway, Saturday, March 9, 2024, Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just war games meant to hone the skills of the newly expanded 32-nation military alliance in the event of conflict. But for the troops taking part, they are very real. (Heiko Junge /NTB Scanpix via AP)