Finland to clarify next steps on possible NATO entry within weeks

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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland will clarify next steps regarding a possible decision to seek NATO membership in the coming weeks, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters after attending a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, opinion polls commissioned by Finnish media outlets have shown a swift U-turn in public opinion in Finland with the majority now favouring joining U.S.-led NATO. Finland, a European Union member state, shares a 1,300-km (810-mile) border with Russia.Haavisto said Russia’s invasion had shown that Russia…