President Joe Biden will close out his five-day trip to Europe on Thursday standing alongside Nordic leaders.
President Joe Biden greets U.S. Ambassador to Finland Douglas Hickey as he arrives on Air Force One at Helsinki-Vantaan International Airport in Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Biden attended the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania and is visiting Helsinki for a meeting with Nordic leaders.
“I’m feeling good about the trip,” Biden told reporters shortly before boarding Air Force One for Finland. “You know, we accomplished every goal we set out to accomplish.” While in Finland, Biden will meet with the country's president, Sauli Niinistö, as well as leaders from other Nordic nations including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Sweden is poised to join NATO as its 32nd member country after it pledged that it would cooperate more with Turkey on counterterrorism efforts while backing Ankara’s bid to join the European Union.
Biden is the sixth U.S president to visit Finland, a country of 5.5 million that has hosted several U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Russia summits. The first involved former President Gerald Ford, who would sign the so-called Helsinki Accords with more than 30 other nations in 1975. Biden’s visit follows Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Finland in early June, when he said in a speech at the Helsinki City Hall that Finland’s membership in NATO was “a sea change that would have been unthinkable a little more than a year earlier.”
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