Last September, the Norwegian and Finnish Defense Ministers visited military border guards stationed on Norway’s border to Russia’s heavy militarized Kola Peninsula. Interviewed by the Barents Observer at the time, Finland’s Defense Minister Jussi Niinistö praised Nordic military cooperation(
7.1 1日プーチン、フィンランド訪問/ NATO接近へのフィンランド国内の「バックラッシュ」/ "Niinisto doesn't want to rock the boat. He isn't a proponent of NATO membership and for the sake of stability he doesn't want to even raise such speculation,"