”The adjustments facilitate increased training and cooperation with allied countries, including cross-border training with Sweden and Finland,” the Government says in a press-release on Thursday. […]
“The amendment of the guidelines represents a natural development following the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO. It enables strengthened cooperation through increased training and exercises with allied forces in the north, across the borders of Sweden and Finland” says Minister of Defence Tore O. Sandvik. […]
Although the Government doesn’t detail which specific changes are made, the Barents Observer has the understanding that adjustments will come to airspace overflights in east-Finnmark, port-calls for allied navy ships and movements of Finnish and Swedish forces between training grounds at Porsangermoen Army camp near Lakselv and Finnish Lapland. Läs artikel